This beautiful stream, the queen of rivers,—famed in British story and
noticed by classic historians,—the theme of poets and the admiration of
tourists, is next in importance to the Thames.
It rises in Plinlimmon mountain, Montgomeryshire, and pursues its course
through that county, receiving in its meanderings numberless tributary
streams, and presenting to proud Salopia the richest variety of
picturesque scenery. After winding sixty or seventy miles through the
centre of Shropshire, passing Worcester, &c. it at length becomes “a
mighty river, potent, large,” and empties itself into the Bristol
Channel, fifty miles below Gloucester.