* * * * The Country Of The Pennines And
the Yorkshire dales is bleak and wind-swept,, and the dale and mountain soil harsh and barren. Corn there is little grown, and generally speaking it cannot be grown. But the......
The Bleak Mountain Land Of The North, Especially...
patterned and chess-boarded with stone fences. But here on the Welsh Border the fields are divided off by green hedges or fences—not of hawthorn, but of hazel. Here and there a......
Country Li F E At The Moment Of Writing This I Am
staying in a Border Country, in the dale of the Mon Honddu. Here Wales and England meet. The people for the most part look neither quite Welsh nor quite Saxon (for there is such......
Worst Of All, Tarred Roads Are Destructive To The Life
of the streams and little rivers. If the tar is of the kind that is soluble in water, the rain-wash from them slowly destroys, not only the trout and grayling, but also the......
An Anglo-welsh Friend Has Just Written Me A Long Letter,
from which I cull some interesting sentences. He says, " A that running stream or river is, I think, one of the most beautiful things on earth; but to see the way the Welsh......
The Land Over Here In This Welsh-english Mountain Country Of
Monmouthshire is rich land for a mountain land. The sheep and cattle are fat. The grass is very green, and almost luscious. The red soil yields easily to the plough and grows......
What My Friend Says About The Welsh May Be True.
But here on this part of the Welsh Border the rivers are exactly what God intended them to be. I have seen no rubbish jammed between the boulders or lying on the sand or gravel......
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