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The Menai Straits to Holyhead -- Llangadwaladr -- The story of Cadwallon -- Cadwaladr -- Plague in 664 -- Ruskin on Holyhead -- The old caer -- Chapel of the Irishman -- Story of S. Cybi -- The menhir of Clorach -- Cybi and Elian -- Church of Caergybi -- Chapel of Llochwyd -- Holy well -- Chapel of S. Brigid -- Breakwater -- The South Stack -- Sea-birds -- Their eggs -- Cytiau'r Gwyddelod -- Old villages -- Camp -- Construction of the huts -- A conservative people that votes Liberal.
THE line from Bangor to Holyhead, after crossing the Menai Straits, runs through country that does not impress the traveller with an opinion that it is fertile or beautiful. The land is for the most part flat, or slightly undulating; there are no trees, much waste land, no mountains -- only hills, and these away to the north. The surface of the island is speckled with little white houses with whitewashed roofs, as though a giant's wedding had taken place there, and it was sprinkled over with the rice cast at the bride.