CONCERNING the purpose and scope of this little book I have but to repeat what I have said in the prefaces to my other works of the same nature--_A Book of the West_, _A Book of Dartmoor_, _A Book of Brittany_--that it is not intended as a Guide, but merely as an introduction to North Wales, for the use of intending visitors, that they may know something of the history of that delightful land they are about to see. Welsh history is a puzzle to most Englishmen; accordingly I have made an attempt to simplify it sufficiently for the visitor to grasp its outlines. Without a knowledge of the history of a country in which one travels more than half its interest is lost.…
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