Copy 1, Volume 1

Descriptive excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire. In the year 1804, and the four preceding summers / By E. Donovan.

  • Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Descriptive excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire. In the year 1804, and the four preceding summers / By E. Donovan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was a place of great trade before the end of the eleventh century*; nor have we any reason to dispute its being since that time the great mart of traffic between the inhabitants in the adjacent parts of England, and their Cambrian neighbours. In our days, the city of Bristol carries on a brisk and lucrative commerce with the in- habitants of South Wales. Nothing can in- deed be more peculiarly advantageous for this purpose than the situation of the former upon the shores of the Avon, a fine navigable river, opening into the Severn at the distance of a few miles only to the south west of the city. * Bricbstou (Bristol) according to an ancient writer, was a town ex- tremely convenient for trading wi th Ireland, and in those barbarous days was the chief mart for slaves collected from all parts of England! From the crimes and cruelties that blot the record of that gloomy age, the heart recoils, and the pen faulters in retracing them. Let us then revere the memory of the pious Wulfstan, who induced them to abandon this odious traffic, “ which neither the love of God nor the King could prevail on them before to lay aside.” Vide Wulfitan Anglia Sacra, See. He was bishop of Worcester, and died in 1095.