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 “mhad,” according to circumstances. That it is a complicated language is evident from the fact that one village near Anglesea is known as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliegegegech. I may tell you that the Celtic tongue of Wales is pleasant to listen to, especially from the lips of the dark-haired girls of an almost French type. The old Welsh women, however, unfortunately wear men’s caps; this is evidently a remnant o f the native costume which included, for the women, a man’s top-hat of enormous height.

In other respects Wales is by no means so strange and terrible as its place-names. One place is called Penmaenmawr, and the