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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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on in the neighbourhood. Farther south,on the coast, are Aheraeron, a favourite watering-place ; New Quay, with a smallharbour and quarries ; and Aberporth, a primitive fishing and bathing place.Cardigan, near the mouth of the Teifi, whence it exports the produce of its PEMBEOKESHIRE. 67 fisheries, has but a small harbour, which larger vessels can enter only with thetide. Travelling up the lovely valley of the Teifi, we reach Lamjyeter, a brightmarket town in a fine situation, and the seat of a college of the Church ofEngland. ISorth of it lies Tregaron, to the north-west of which are the ruins ofStrata Florida, an abbey founded in 1184. Pembrokeshire is called in Welsh Penfro—that is, Head of the Peninsula■—a very appropriate name for a county forming the south-western extremity ofWales. The surface of Pembrokeshire is for the most part undulating, and risesin the Mynydd Preseley to a height of 1,758 feet. The coast is generally bold, Fig. 35.—MiLFORD Haven.Scale 1 : SSO.OW.
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W.OP Gr Depth under 10 iathoma. 10 to 20 Fathoms. 20 to 33 Fathoms.^_ 5 Miles. Over 33 Fathoms. and Milford Haven, a veritable fiord with many ramifications, penetrates farinland. It is easily accessible, and capable of afibrding shelter to the combinedmerchant fleet of England, but owing to its remote situation no great mercantileharbour has arisen on its shores. Pembrokeshire is Welsh in its northern, English in its southern half, and theline separating the two races is well marked, extending from the northern part ofSt. Brides Bay to Narberth, which lies to the east of it. When Arnulf deMontgomery conquered the country, in the reign of Henry I., he no doubt broughtEnglish settlers with him. These were on two subsequent occasions reinforced by 68 THE BRITISH ISLES. Flemings, who established themselves in Hoose, with Haverfordwest for their capital,and in the peninsula of Castle Martin, to the west of Tenby. In these early daysSouthern Pembrokeshire was known as Little England, and a

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