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is now reduced to small dimensions; but leaden coffins, doubtless belonging to once celebrated personages, are still found, both there and at a distance from the cemetery. Only a few aged box and yew-trees now remain to tell of the luxuriant verdure that once grew around the Abbey. Of the venerable
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Florida Abbey, in South Wales, are most interesting in many points of view, more especially as the relics of a stately seminary for learning, founded as early as 1164. The community of the Abbey were Cistercian monks, who soon attained great celebrity, and acquired extensive
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that may have increased water flow into the Nant
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pile itself, little is left, except an arch, and the fragment of a fine old wall, about forty feet high. A small church now stands within the enclosure, more than commonly interesting from having been built with the materials of the once celebrated Abbey of Strata
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possessions. They founded a large library that included national records from the earliest periods, works of the bards, and genealogies of the
Princes and great families in Wales. The monks also compiled a valuable history of the Principality, down to the death of
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Extensive woods once flourished in the vicinity of Strata
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as his rightful successor. Strata
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