. The earth and its inhabitants ... and Scotland. And those whopeople this ancient soil are distinguished from the other inhabitants by theantiquity of their origin ; for they are the descendants of the aborigines of thecountry, and can look upon Saxons, Jutes, Danes, and Normans as comparativelyrecent intruders. The mountains of Wales do not form a continuous rang-e, or a regrular succès-sion of ranges, but rather rise in distinct groups, separated by low passes, andspreading out sometimes into elevated table-lands intersected by deep and fertilevalleys. The principal amongst these groups is
. The earth and its inhabitants ... and Scotland. And those whopeople this ancient soil are distinguished from the other inhabitants by theantiquity of their origin ; for they are the descendants of the aborigines of thecountry, and can look upon Saxons, Jutes, Danes, and Normans as comparativelyrecent intruders. The mountains of Wales do not form a continuous rang-e, or a regrular succès-sion of ranges, but rather rise in distinct groups, separated by low passes, andspreading out sometimes into elevated table-lands intersected by deep and fertilevalleys. The principal amongst these groups is that which occupies the wholeof Carnarvon, and within whicli rises the monarch of the Welsh mountains,Snowdon,t thus named on account of the snow which remains on its summit for • Area, 7,957 square miles ; population (1861) 1,286,413—(1871) 1,412,083. t By the Welsh it is called Erj-ri, which some translate Eagles Rock, others Snowy Mountain. ?a • * f; ° s s s ?•• n 1 ??•= <c o: 0-. _ ^ il _• _ _, , m^.. WALES. 47 five or six montlis of the year. Though only 3,590 feet in height, this mountainimpresses the heholder by the boldness with which it rises above all surroundingheights, revealing the whole of its slopes, from their base to the peaked summitcalled Y Wyddfa, or the Place of Presence. The prospect to be enjoyed fromthis mass of slate pierced by porphyritic rocks, rising close to the sea, is mostmagnificent, and extends over a vast horizon of lower hills, valleys, lakes, promon-tories, and inlets of the sea. On a clear day the eye commands not only a vast Fig. 20.—YiBw OF Snowdon.
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