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 . ollows :— Total population of Carnarvonshire in I S31 66,500 Do. 1841 81,093 Do. 1851 87,870 Do. 1861 95,696 Do. 1871 106,122 —showing that the population in fifty years has nearly doubled. The great convulsion, which gave to four-fifths of North Wales its broken, mountainous 3IO CARNARVONSHIRE. surface, which tore the less agitated limb, now called Anglesey, away from the mainland, orat least left a hollow
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 . ollows :— Total population of Carnarvonshire in I S31 66,500 Do. 1841 81,093 Do. 1851 87,870 Do. 1861 95,696 Do. 1871 106,122 —showing that the population in fifty years has nearly doubled. The great convulsion, which gave to four-fifths of North Wales its broken, mountainous 3IO CARNARVONSHIRE. surface, which tore the less agitated limb, now called Anglesey, away from the mainland, orat least left a hollow, which the never-resting tide at last wore into a channel, and whichwell-nigh exhausted its power, southwards, in the effort to raise Penllyman (corrupted Plinlimmon ), erected the chief monuments to its power in the Snowdonian range, theloftiest point of which—V IVydd/a—stands at an elevation of 3,571 feet above the sealevel, the highest mountain in South Britain. This is the point from which, in imagination, we shall survey the extent and varioussurface, the lower mountains, the lakes and streams, the sea limits and neighbouring landsof this grand and historic old Capel Curig Lakes and Snowdon (from apholo. by Bedford). The name Snow-don is a literal translation into Saxon—snaw-dun, snow mountain—ofthe native name, Eryri, the snowy heights. The Welsh word must be allowed to be a some-what irregular plural from eira, or eiri, snow, but its explanation is not more satisfactory ifwe take the theory of others who think the name comes from eryr, an eagle; for hereagain it would present neither a singular nor a plural form of the word. Eiii r/ii, in earlyWelsh— the snowy chief or eminence—would probably be the nearest guess at itsetymology; and it is scarcely to be doubted that the Saxon name was not only meant tobe a proper rendering of the original and ancient name, but was applied from a knowledgeof its signification. This height is crested for a good p
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