The earth and its inhabitants (1882) (14750001296)

Identifier: earthitsinhabita04recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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Depth under 5 Fathoms 5 to 10 Fathoms Over 10 Fathoms.10 Miles. elevation, and as many of them rise close by the sea, the aspect they presentis bold in the extreme, and they remind us, if not of the Alps, at allevents of their lower spurs. Cader Idris (2,958 feet), the Seat of Idris, afabulous warrior and astronomer, is a mountain of volcanic origin, hardly inferiorto Snowdon in the grandeur of the prospect which it affords those who climbits craggy summits to look down upon the chaotic masses of rock which extendthence to Cardigan Bay. In a deep hollow on its flank lies Llyn Y Can, oneof the finest tarns in the principality. A branch stretches north-eastward tothe Aran Mowddwy (2,970 feet) and Berwyn range (2,716 feet) : from the lattermay be seen the valley of the Dee, and Lake Bala, in which that river rises.
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WALES. 49 Plynlimmon * (2,481 feet), a rather tame mountain range of Silurian slatecontaining rich veins of lead ore, forms the connecting link between themountains of North and South Wales. It occupies the very centre of the princi-pality, and the Severn and the Wye have their origin in its vallevs. The rangewhich stretches thence south-westward as far as St. Davids Head nowhere exceedsa height of 1,800 feet. Another range extends along the right bank of the Severn,terminating in Long Mountain (1,696 feet), on the border of Shropshire. Thevalley of the Wye is bounded on one side by Radnor Forest, and on the otherby the Epynt Hills: both are desolate mountain tracts, covered with mosses andpeat or thin herbage. The valley of the Usk separates the Epynt Hills from theBlack Mountains, or Forest Fawr, the highest range of Southern Wales, withinwhich the Brecknock Beacons attain a height of 2,163 feet. These mountainsare covered with herbage, and they derive their epithet black from the d