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Merioneth/Meirionnydd (Dolgellau, Bala, Tywyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Barmouth,
Harlech)
The County of Merioneth is 108 Miles in
Circumference, contains about 500,000 Acres, & divided into 6
Hundreds; in the North are 3 Market Towns, but none of them nor any
other Town in this County, are represented in Parliament; has 37
Parishes & about 2590 Houses.
The County being full of Mountains, &
barren, so extraordinary steep, that Persons may talk from the
top of one Mountain and be heard by those that stand on the other.
!!
Here are great Flocks of Sheep, & Goats,
Herds of Cattle, Deer, Fowl, Fish of all sorts, cheifly Herring in
their Season.
Between 1877 and 1881, William Thomas of
Llanrhuddlad, Anglesey - a ship broker in Liverpool - and his
friends were responsible for building seven ships bearing the names
of Welsh counties. The first was the "County of Flint" - an iron
barque of 1083 tons - built by Doxford of Sunderland in 1877.
The "County of Merioneth" - a three-masted barque - 'was built in
1880 to a design by William Thomas and W.E.Jones, a ship-builder
from Felinheli (Port Dinorwic), Caernarvonshire. It is reported that
this ship in 1887/8, under the command of Captain Robert Thomas, of
Llandwrog, Caernarvonshire, made the fastest voyage ever from
Cardiff to San Francisco. |
