We have little more than two months to stay in this place.'[42] 20.

_On the Wye_.
'We left Alfoxden on Monday morning, the 26th of June, stayed with Coleridge till the Monday following, then set forth on foot towards Bristol.

We were at Cottle's for a week, and thence we went towards the banks of the Wye.

We crossed the Severn Ferry, and walked ten miles further to Tintern Abbey, a very beautiful ruin on the Wye.

The next morning we walked along the river through Monmouth to Goderich Castle, there slept, and returned the next day to Tintern, thence to Chepstow, and from Chepstow back again in a boat to Tintern, where we slept, and thence back in a small vessel to Bristol.
'The Wye is a stately and majestic river from its width and depth, but never slow and sluggish; you can always hear its murmur.