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By permission of the noble proprietor, the house and grounds are accessible to strangers during the summer months, and the paintings by Claude, Titian, Salvator Rosa, Carravaggio, Zucharelli, &c., are well worthy the inspection of the connoisseur and artist.

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“In Cambria’s noon of story,

Ere bright she set in glory,

The brave and great, in princely state,

All hail’d Chirk Castle walls.

With splendid arms returning,

The flaring torches burning,

’Mid armour’s clang the clarions rang,

And search’d the sounding halls.”

SONG BY F. M. DOVASTON, A.M.

Chirk Castle is delightfully situated on the spacious domain, spreading over the summit of, what would be deemed, by a southern, a lofty mountain, but which is here only designated a hill, projecting from the range of the Berwyn Mountains, and is well calculated to recall the stories of the days of old, when flourished—

“The good old rule, the simple plan,

That they should take who have the power,

And they should keep who can.”