The Rivers and Streams of England

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The description of Plinlimmon presents the mountain as a mass of wild bog, connected on both sides to far-spreading solitudes. The account places the fountain springs of the Severn and the Wye less than a mile apart on the long slope of Plinlimmon.

The discussion of streams in Lakeland concerns short stretches linking lake to lake, whose individual identities are described as in a sense absorbed and merged in the familiar surrounding region. Some rivers in the account are described as steeped in history and tradition, with the text crediting the waterways themselves with helping to create both. An architectural description records a recessed Norman doorway, Norman windows and arcading on a building identified as originally the Hospital of St. John the Baptist.

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Arthur Granville Bradley

Arthur Granville Bradley was a British historian, travel writer, and illustrator whose first-hand experience of Virginia informed one of his best-known American books. Sketches Old Virginia gathers narratives about landscapes, communities, sport, and social life that Bradley had previously contributed to periodicals including Blackwood's and Macmillan's.