Publisher's Synopsis
Wales is a row of hills, rising between the Irish Sea on the west and the English plains on the east. If you come from the west along the sea, or if you cross the Severn or the Dee from the east, you will see that Wales is a country all by itself. It rises grandly and proudly. If you are a stranger, you will think of it as "Wales"-a strange country; if you are Welsh, you will think of it as "Cymru"-a land of brothers.The geologist will tell you how Wales was made; the geographer will tell you what it is like now; the historian will tell you what its people have done and what they are. All p. 2three will tell you that it is a very interesting country.The rocks of Wales are older and harder than the rocks of the plains; and as you travel from the south to the north, the older and harder they become. The highest mountains of Wales, and some of its hills, have crests of the very oldest and hardest rock-granite, porphyry, and basalt; and these rocks are given their form by fire. But the greater part of the country is made of rocks formed by water-still the oldest of their kind. In the north-west, centre, and west-about two-thirds of the whole country, -the rocks are chiefly slate and shale; in the south-east they are chiefly old red sandstone; in the north-east, but chiefly in the south, they are limestone and coal.
