having at the top a fine colossal figure of Hercules, which was cast at
Rome from the Farnese Hercules, and is no inapt memorial of the labour
consequent upon the removal of upwards of 26,000 loads of soil in the
formation of the street.
Passing to the DANA WALK, “where the huge castle hold its state,” the
prospect is bounded to the right by the eminences of Hawkstone,
Grinshill, Pimhill, Almond Park, and the plain of “Battlefield.”
Westward is Berwick House, embosomed in sylvan beauty, and beyond in the
horizon are a range of Cambrian mountains, gradually fading into the
clouds, which in point of colour they not unfrequently resemble. Among
these may be particularly distinguished those gigantic landmarks between
England and Wales,—the Breidden and Moelygolfa hills. The former rises
to the height of 1000 feet, and has on the summit a pillar erected to
commemorate the great victory obtained by Admiral Rodney over the French
fleet in the West Indies, 1782.
By a modern archway opened through the wall abutting from the Castle at
the time this walk was formed, in 1790, we are again brought within the
walls. This part, however, of