Excerpt from Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand, Vol. 2 of 2: Their Legends and Their Lives
To me there is something peculiarly beautiful, rich, and sweet in the Vale of Gloucester and Berkeley, stretching along the banks of the Severn as it does the river near Berkeley being an arm of the sea, and bringing up with it on the breast of its returning tide, from its foster-mother the mighty Ocean, the fresh aroma of the salt sea-weed.
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