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Title: Wild Wales
Its People, Language and Scenery

Author: George Borrow

Release Date: December 26, 2008 [eBook #648]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILD WALES***

Transcribed from the 1907 John Murray edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Second proof by Jane Gamie.

WILD WALES

ITS PEOPLE, LANGUAGE
AND SCENERY

BY GEORGE BORROW

"Their Lord they shall praise,
Their language they shall keep,
Their land they shall lose,
Except Wild Wales."

TALIESIN: _Destiny of the Britons_

* * * * *

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1907

FIRST EDITION 1862
SECOND EDITION 1865
THIRD EDITION 1888
FOURTH EDITION 1896
FIFTH (DEFINITIVE) EDITION 6/- _March_, 1901
_Reprinted_ Thin Paper _July_, 1905
_Reprinted_ 6/- _Sept._, 1907
_Reprinted_ 2/6 net. _Sept._, 1907

NOTE

This edition of _Wild Wales_ has been carefully collated with the first
edition, in order to ensure that the spelling of proper names shall be
precisely as Borrow left it, and the running headings on the right-hand
pages as nearly as possible those which Borrow himself wrote.

_January_ 1901.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_All the Plates in this volumes are from drawings by_ Mr. A. S. HARTRICK
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Above Capel Curig on the road to Bangor _Frontispiece_
(_Photogravure_)
Llangollen and Dinas Bran _to face page_ 32
The Wilds of Snowdown 2