. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ently undulating,fertile throughout, and possessed of productive veins of copper, Anglesey held outinducements to colonists. The Druids, whom Tiberius caused to be expelled fromGaul, sought a refuge here. The old bards speak of Anglesey as the shadyisland ; but the forests which justified this epithet have long disappeared, and thesurface of the country is now almost treeless. The gardens of Anglesey are notedon account of the variety of their produce. The climate is mild and equable, and evenbamboos grow in the open air. Anglesey, owing to its great fertil
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ently undulating,fertile throughout, and possessed of productive veins of copper, Anglesey held outinducements to colonists. The Druids, whom Tiberius caused to be expelled fromGaul, sought a refuge here. The old bards speak of Anglesey as the shadyisland ; but the forests which justified this epithet have long disappeared, and thesurface of the country is now almost treeless. The gardens of Anglesey are notedon account of the variety of their produce. The climate is mild and equable, and evenbamboos grow in the open air. Anglesey, owing to its great fertility, was knownin former times as Mona, mam Cymri; that is, The Mother of Cambria. Beaumaris, the capital, at the northern entrance of the Menai Strait, boasts ofan old castle, is a favourite seaside resort, and carries on a considerable trade withEngland, several thousand coasting vessels annually frequenting its port. Amlwch,on the north coast, derives its importance from the copper mines in Parys * Carl Vogt, Nordfahrt. mm I I ill. ANGLESEY. 63 Mountain, a couple of miles to the south of the town. They were discovered in1768. Holyhead (Caer Gybi), on a smaller island lying off the west coast ofAnglesey, to which it is joined by a railway embankment and an old bridge, hasattained considerable importance as the nearest port to Ireland. Holyhead mayalmost be called an outport of London, and engineering works on a large scalehave been completed to adapt it to the requirements of the increasing tradebetween England and Ireland, and as a harbour of refuge for vessels trading toLiverpool. Two breakwaters, with a total length of 9,860 feet, planned byJ. M. Rendel, and completed by Sir J. Hawksley in 1873, protect a harbour withan area of 267 acres. They are built upon rubble mounds, 250 feet wide at the Fig. 31.—Holyhead Harbouk. Scale 1 : 50,000.
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