Explore "A Book of North Wales" by Sabine Baring-Gould on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The Lake of Bala -- Estuary of the Mawddach -- Barmouth -- Cader Idris -- The Torrent and Precipice Walks -- "Welsh web" -- Numerous lakes -- Fishing in Wales -- Treachery of David ab Llewelyn -- Gruffydd's attempt to escape -- "The Spirit's Blasted Tree" -- John Thomas -- Characteristics of the Welsh people -- Intelligence great -- None of the coarseness characterising the Anglo-Saxon bumpkin -- Long-heads and short-heads -- A Welsh courtship -- Untruthfulness a product of servitude -- Religiousness of the Welsh -- The theatre discountenanced -- Old Interludes -- Richard Malvine -- Twm o'r Nant -- Poetry in Wales -- Welsh Nonconformity -- The squirearchy -- The Seiet -- The old Welsh preachers -- Embellishments -- The Hwyl -- Reviving the spirit -- How the Church was treated -- The Methodist Revival -- The Church in Wales.
ONLY as one reaches the head of the Bala Lake, coming from Ruabon, does the beauty of form of the Welsh mountains begin to impress one. Then ensues the rapid descent of the valley of the Wnion, down which the train gallops, and as Dolgelley is approached, Cader Idris breaks on the sight.