The Argosy — page 152: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Among the Welsh. 137 rough weather, and in such a storm as I first saw Llandudno, thunders against its base with a mighty roar, as if it would shake and shiver it to its very foundations. Llandudno, you see at once, 1s a much more advanced and civilised place than Rhyl, and is more fashionable. It is also more sheltered. Great Orme’s Head on the one side, and Little Orme’s Head on the other, help to form the bay of Llandudno, and are some protection to the town. Of course there is an esplanade, and a long row of houses faces the water, but there is still a considerable extent of front yet to be built upon. A | lr, iy tial fi ii ve A a i ic | j iy Hitt a << ° mas AY Peaemr TV \ wiht rt . a ¢ ~ , Pa he "7 Celene i seen ih Hi (init k. - i 1 ‘a4 UTUTE Be pint" t an fan Zaynt = l 4 q b./ \T: fee Di Mu li fl hi high Hs ‘ vt ’ TALE} / eo Hy \ a ~~ rT = : P f ») *) ee ee . sq - % ‘1a ‘ Ae z = ~ a Ty ae ‘A ena (as: ‘ : Te . ‘ .~ = R\\ Le <o-—— “f ¥ J i — Reo Se Aer Tit “etl, Se ne ; to cone ‘| ' ~~ = mh. gS SO f Wy W, re 1 } Tit H ‘ j . ? be wie | 1! ! <4 a a i, , ‘ ‘ \ i ore ! TT Mu "ties. fr mae ) < X . = = -: N's AE = = MP ith rt REMAINS OF BANQUETING HALL, CONWAY CASTLE. Llandudno is divided into two distinct parts. That bordering the sea, is cold and bleak in winter, exposed to cutting winds and fierce gales. The place looks bare and deserted, and the hotels do not lay them- selves out for winter visitors. At the time I was there, for instance, we dined each night six people in a room that would have held two hundred; and though the gale that was raging made the weather colder than anything we have had since, the public sitting room had a small fire at one end only, and people sat and shivered : with the ex- ception of the selfish few—never absent, go where you will—who, regardless of everyone else, sat nose and knees in the fender, and comfortably roasted themselves. | The other aspect of Llandudno is much more sheltered. It hes snugly at the back of Great Orme’s Head, its houses sloping upwards, warmed by a southern sun. So great was the contrast between the COMMUCG DOOKS (SO)