Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . y perpendicular. Holyhead wasprobably many ages ago not separated by the tide from Anglesey. It is now artificiallyconnected with it by the embankment and causeway which were made to carry the great 4 . AXGLESKV. iniil road from Chester to Holyliead, now partly superseded by tlie railway. On the confronts the sea with a lofty rani]Kirt of < liffs rarely eciualled for the boldness oftheir br
Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . y perpendicular. Holyhead wasprobably many ages ago not separated by the tide from Anglesey. It is now artificiallyconnected with it by the embankment and causeway which were made to carry the great 4 . AXGLESKV. iniil road from Chester to Holyliead, now partly superseded by tlie railway. On the confronts the sea with a lofty rani]Kirt of < liffs rarely eciualled for the boldness oftheir broken outline ; but on the W., looking into Carnarvon 15ay, the beach is low andsandy, and the interior correspondingly tame and dreary. On the sloping banks of the Mcnai all the way from Penmon in thf. , by Lleiniog,llenllys, Earon Hill, Craig y Don, Plas Newydd, and Llanidan, to the shore oppositeCarnarvon, we are presented with a scene of uninterrupted fliiry-land beauty which,combined with the rich landscape across the straits, has been pronounced to beunsuri)asscd in any part of Britain. The streams of Anglesey are necessarily short and insignificant, and mainly meet the sea. Mknai (/row a Pholo. by Bedford)..^pan. 560 feet ; heij,lit of roadway aliove high water, 100 feet. Designed by Telford, and built by (lovenunent, iSiS—1S25. on the N. or side. The chief are the the Ccfni, and the .Maw, the last runninginto I lolyhead Bay. The general surface is undulating, with fre<|uent abrujit out-croppings of igneous the \V. and it is tame and barren over extensive tracts, with scarcely a treevisible; but l(jwar(ls the K., where the chief heights are Bodafon and Paris (Parrys)Mountains, which, with the small spurs abutting them form the chief watersheds ofthe island, the landscape is often i)i(tures(iue. The valley of the Braint runs parallel tothe Menai at a short distance, and iMalldraeth Marsh, whose depression is continuedby the smal
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