Stitching together rasters

Is there any easy way to 'stitch' together 2 (or more) rasters maps -
this is mainly in regard to our use of r.watershed to produce an aspect
map for the whole region. On our poor little Sun IPX doing it in one go
would take forever, but I estimate that doing it as say about 4x10
smaller blocks would only take about 40 hours. This is only really of any
use if I can then somehow combine the small blocks back into one 'aspect'
map.

Cheers,

Steve Culshaw
NRA North West
e-mail : nra@cix.compulink.co.uk (use this for general usage)
or sculshaw@cix.compulink.co.uk (Private - only checked at best
biweekly)