Note 35 — THE CASTLE OF CHEPSTOW, Monmouthshire.

“It may almost be said,” remarks the same writer, “that the last happy moments Gray knew in this world were spent upon the Wye; for, a few months after, we find him a prey to ill health and despondency—complaining of an incurable cough, of the irksomeness of his employment at Cambridge, and of ‘mechanical low spirits.’ He died in the course of the following summer, æt. 55.”—P. M. August, 1835.—See his Life by Mason.