WALES. 



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New World, and even in Australia, Wherever Welsh emigrants settle down in 

 numbers, the Cymracij is spoken side by side with Sassenach, or Saxon. At 

 Liverpool there are some twenty chapels in which the services are conducted in 

 Welsh, and a journal is published in Cymraeg.* The Welsh in the United States 

 cocasionally meet in order to sing and declaim in the language of the ancient 



Fig. 28. — Linguistic Map of Wales. 

 By E. G. Ravenstein. 



Proportion of Celtic-speaking Inhabitants. 



mm 



25 to 50 p. c. 



50 to 90 p.c. 



Over 90 p.c. 



bards; and the indomitable colonists who, notwithstanding the difficulties they 

 encountered, founded a New Wales in Patagonia, retain the use of their 

 mother tongue, and the Rio Chuput, on the banks of which they established their 

 settlement, has been renamed by them Afon Llwyd, or " Grey Eiver." Through- 

 out the world Welsh is spoken by far above 1,000,000 human beings. 



Nevertheless the Celtic spoken by the Cymry of Wales would appear to be doomed 



* Throughout England there are about 110 chapels in which the services are conducted in Welsh. 

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