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Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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The author records an episodic travelogue across rural Wales, combining vivid descriptions of mountains, valleys, and coastlines with close observations of local speech, customs, and antiquities. Encounters with farmers, bards, and villagers are recounted alongside visits to churches, ruins, and market towns, and reflections on folklore, language preservation, and historical struggles punctuate the route. The narrative mixes picturesque scene-setting, humorous anecdote, and linguistic curiosity, producing a lively panorama of landscape, social life, and cultural memory.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

All the Plates in this volumes are from drawings by Mr. A. S. Hartrick [0]

Above Capel Curig on the road to Bangor (Photogravure)

Frontispiece

Llangollen and Dinas Bran

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The Wilds of Snowdown

200

In Anglessey. Redwharf Bay (Treath Coch), and the Country of Gronwy Owen

212

The Wondrous Valley of Gelert

312

Cascade on the Moor between Festiniog and Balla

328

Balla Lake in the Fifties, showing the Aran Mountain and Cader Idris. (Drawn from an old print)

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Chirk (Castell y Waen)

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Twilight after a Storm. Dinas Mawddwy

494

Eastern Street, Machynlleth, showing part of Owen Glendower’s Parliament House

512

The Devil’s Bridge

558

The Remains of Strata Florida Abbey from the Churchyard

596

“Pump Saint”

632

Map of Wales showing Borrow’s Route

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