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...hundred years later, a group of bushwalkers stands on a ridge overlooking the dense bush into which Caley and his men descended. Of the 62 km Caley traveled to reach the Carmarthen Hills, as a section of the range was then known, less than a third has been swallowed by farming and suburbia; most of it today lies in the Grose Wilderness - an area protected as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color...
...economic. Any enterprising poacher can easily earn $750 a night by netting, poisoning, gaffing or otherwise coaxing salmon out of British streams and selling them for $3 per lb., more for the choicest steaks, to restaurants. Nick Sanders, manager of the Cothi Bridge Hotel about six miles east of Carmarthen in south Wales, is one of the few restaurateurs willing to admit as much. "If the fish comes in at a reasonable price, I'll buy it," he says. "Poaching has always gone on in Wales. It's like kids bobbing for apples." The penalty for getting caught...
...stagecoach from Boston to New York), and there is not a single bank comparable to the great financial institutions of Europe. "For what purpose were [the Colonists] suffered to go to that country unless the profit of their labor should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance...
...during the 19th century provides the background for Cordell's romance novels, which relate the doings and stewings of a wild country clan called the Mortymers. The present book, sequel to The Rape of the Fair Country, moves the Mortymers to the coal-mining and farming town of Carmarthen in time for the Rebecca riots of 1839-44. Strapping young Jethro, the book's hero, joins the night-riding Rebeccas-angry farmers who black their faces and wear their wives' nightgowns to raid the hated tollgates, which devour profits on produce taken to market...
...David's daughter for St. David's day," cried a musical Welsh voice in the bar at Brown's Hotel as its owner raised his pint high. Across the street, their collars turned up against the icy wind, the voters of Carmarthen constituency in Wales were queueing up to cast their votes in Britain's third parliamentary by-election since Tory Harold Macmillan took over as Prime Minister. Under normal circumstances the results would have been easily predictable, for Carmarthen is a Liberal Party stronghold and one of the candidates was pert, jaunty, 54-year...