Motoring aboard . able small tubes firmly riveted tubes which rest on five piers, have alength of 1,840 feet. It is said that the summerheat at noonday increases the length of thisstructure by nearly a foot and a very clevermechanical device has been arranged to takecare of the expansion and contraction. Just beyond Bangor we passed the Penrhynslate quarries, the largest in the world. Thereare employed here over 3,000 quarrymen andover 360 tons of the finest slate are shipped everyday. This quarry, of which we had a mostexcellent view in passing, is like a huge amphi-theater, th
Motoring aboard . able small tubes firmly riveted tubes which rest on five piers, have alength of 1,840 feet. It is said that the summerheat at noonday increases the length of thisstructure by nearly a foot and a very clevermechanical device has been arranged to takecare of the expansion and contraction. Just beyond Bangor we passed the Penrhynslate quarries, the largest in the world. Thereare employed here over 3,000 quarrymen andover 360 tons of the finest slate are shipped everyday. This quarry, of which we had a mostexcellent view in passing, is like a huge amphi-theater, the successive steps or terraces eachbeing from forty to sixty feet in height. Thequarry now has a depth of 1,000 feet and drillingsshow that there is still nearly 2,000 feet of solidslate below the present floor. Tram lines runalong each terrace to convey the output to theimmense hydraulic lifts which raise it to the sur-face. As we passed this great quarry in theafternoon the sun was reflected at such an angle 258. We crossed the Straits of Menai, which sepa-rates the Island of Anglesey from Wales, bythe huge S^^spension Bridge built in 1819-26. Jfrom JlSutilin to Cnglantr on the slate that it had almost the brilliancy ofglass. Bettws-y-Coed is one of the popular resorts ofWales and its beauties are such that this is not tobe wondered at. We stopped here at the delight-ful Royal Oak Hotel, the house of the famoussign by David Cox, which is spending its hoaryold age in a comfortable frame indoors. Thename of this town translated into English is TheChapel in the Wood. It is delightfully locatedin a valley at the junction of two beautifulstreams and is surrounded by high hills closelywooded to their summits. There are few placesin Great Britain more beautiful than Bettws-y-Coed and it is filled every summer with visitorsfrom all over the world. It is a favoriterendezvous of artists, fishermen and is no place in Wales as convenientlysituated for days-run motor trips
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