. La terre et ses habitants .. . distribution du gallois-speakixg Popvlatiox du pays de Galles. Personnes districts dans lesquels le gallois est parlé bya majorité... Districts dans lesquels il est parlé de 25 à 50 %. .... Districts dans lesquels il est parlé par moins de 25 %, des habitants .... Surface totale.q. M. population. Personnes parlant gallois Pour cent. Parlant Enjlish, ou gallois et anglais. %. 6,050 1,025,573 887,870 86-5 81-7 357 113,030 38,046 33-7 96-8 1,501 174,0801,312,583 8,614 4-971-2 1000 7,908 934,530 85-0 (E. G. Ravenstein, Journal Statistical Societij, 1879.) PAYS DE GALLES. 57 N

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ribution of the Welsh-speakixg Popvlatiox of Wales. Persons Districts in which Welsh is spoken bya majority ..... Districts in which it is spoken by 25to 50 per cent. .... Districts in which it is spoken by lessthan 25 per cent, of the in-habitants .... Total Area.Sq. M. Population. Persons speaking Welsh.No. Per Cent. speaking Enjjlish, or Welsh and English. Per Cent. 6, 050 1, 025, 573 887, 870 86-5 81-7 357 113, 030 38, 046 33-7 96-8 1, 501 174, 0801, 312, 583 8, 614 4-971-2 1000 7, 908 934, 530 85-0 (E. G. Ravenstein, Journal Statistical Societij, 1879.) WALES. 57 New World, and even in Australia. Wherever Welsh emigrants settle down innumbers, the Cymraey is spoken side by side with Sassenach, or Saxon. AtLiverpool there are some twenty chapels in which the services are conducted inWelsh, and a journal is published in Cyraraeg.* The Welsh in the United Statescocasionally meet in order to sing and declaim in the language of the ancient Fig. 28.—LiNGnsTic Map of Wales.By E. G. Ravenstein. 3°. Proportion of Celtic-speaiing Inhabifainti?.25to50p.c. 50to90p.c. OverOOp.c. bards; and the indomitable colonists who, notwithstanding the difficulties theyencountered, founded a New Wales in Patagonia, retain the use of theirmother tongue, and the Eio Chuput, on the banks of which they established theirsettlement, has been renamed by them Afon Llwyd, or Grey River. 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. ill 58 THE BRITISH ISLES. to extinction, and a time must come when it will survive only among philologists.Many use it from patriotic motives, others employ it to gratify their craving afterliterary honours. All men of education learn to think in English, and even atthe eisteddfodau the language of the conquering Saxon struggles for pre-emine

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