Transcriber’s Note Page 16 - Glendyfrdwy changed to Glyndyfrdwy The Footnotes have been changed from alpha to numeric. In the List of Illustrations the page number for OLD ROMAN BRIDGE NEAR SWANSEA has been changed from 78 to 80 as positioned in the original. [Illustration: ABEREDW AND BLACK MOUNTAINS. _Page 60._] [Illustration: PEEPS AT MANY LANDS WALES BY E. M. WILMOT-BUXTON F.R.HIST.S. AUTHOR OF “BRITAIN LONG AGO”, ETC. CONTAINING TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1911 ] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION vii I. WILD WALES 1 II. SNOWDONIA, THE FASTNESS OF LLEWELYN 8 III. IN GLENDOWER LAND 14 IV. A WELSH MARKET-TOWN 20 V. A VISIT TO ANGLESEY AND HOLYHEAD 26 VI. AN EISTEDDFOD 31 VII. “MEN OF HARLECH” 35 VIII. A BURIED VILLAGE 43 IX. THE SACRED RIVER 48 X. A PEEP AT PEMBROKE 51 XI. THE VALLEY OF THE WYE 59 XII. THE GREAT PLYNLIMMON 64 XIII. THE VALE OF TEIFY 71 XIV. THE DEVIL’S BRIDGE 78 XV. THE GLOWING MOUNTAIN 85 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ABEREDW AND BLACK MOUNTAINS _frontispiece_ FACING PAGE CONWAY CASTLE 9 DISTANT VIEW OF CARNARVON BAY 16 VALLE CRUCIS ABBEY 25 CARNARVON CASTLE 32 BRAN THE BLESSED AT HARLECH CASTLE WATCHING MATHOLWCH’S FLEET ARRIVE FROM IRELAND 41 A DRUID PRIEST 48 ST. CATHERINE’S ROCK, TENBY 57 THE WYE NEAR RHAYADER 64 CARDIGAN BAY 73 OLD ROMAN BRIDGE NEAR SWANSEA 80 THE STACK, HOLYHEAD (_p. 26_) _on the cover_ _Sketch-Map of Wales on page vi_ [Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF WALES.] INTRODUCTION These peeps at Wales will take us into a country busy with its various industries of coal-mining, slate-quarrying, and wool manufacture, yet one which, in spite of its modern developments and trade interests, has never lost the magic and glamour of an earlier age. Every country-town, almost every hill and mound in the district, has its legend, its romance, which lives in the hearts of an intensely patriotic and imaginative people, and blends the past and the present into one.