Category: Travel Writing
Page. Holyhead 5 The Church 10 Church Walls 10 The Filial Request 11 Population 14 Distances of places from Holyhead 14 Post Office 14 Delivery of Letters 14 Agents 15 Banks 15 Ancient Customs 15 Holyhead Pier 18 Grand Triumphal Arch 19 Holyhead Lighthouse 20 Captain Skinner’s...
Page. Holyhead 5 The Church 10 Church Walls 10 The Filial Request 11 Population 14 Distances of places from Holyhead 14 Post Office 14 Delivery of Letters 14 Agents 15 Banks 15...
2. Part 2Such was Holyhead a few years ago. At that time there was no harbour for her vessels, but what the rude hand of Nature had formed—no lighthouse streaming in the midnight gloom—n...
3. Part 3Is erected on an island, or rather the summit of an isolated rock, from which it takes its name, situated at the south west point of Holyhead mountain, and about four miles from...
4. Part 4A tide of joy rises in my soul at the thought that, close to my own door, I can gaze upon two light-houses, one of which is, mid the foaming deep, presenting a brilliant point o...
5. Part 5Superstition then triumphed over the minds of the masses. In yon valley was the sequestered grove devoted to obscure and horrid mysteries—altars were reared, on which the innoce...
6. Part 6Holyhead is the terminus of this extraordinary line—a line of great value to this place, effecting as it has done a rapid communication between this port and the eastern part of...
7. Part 7The writer visited these cromlechs on the 18th of February, 1853, and, assisted by a friend, measured some of the huge, unshapely stones. The western cromlech consists of 5 ston...
8. Part 8SIR,—I cannot think myself doing my duty towards my brother seamen, without relating to you (and trust that you will inform the public) the following facts:—I was always taken i...