Identifier: ourownislandsele00mackrich (find matches)
Title: Our own islands; an elementary study in geography
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackinder, Halford John
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, G. Philip
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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XVI. luKi-AND, Political. THE WELSH MOUNTAINS 179 the sea were very calm indeed, and there were nowaves on it, the water would rise steadily as hewaded out on the sloping shore. At a height of42 inches he would make a hole in the surface ofthe sea, whose shape and size would be like that ofthe outer contour-line in Fig. 81. When at lasthe was neck deep, the hole which he would makein the surface would, of course, be that shownby the inner contour-line. Now let us look at the picture and the three littlemaps in Fig. 82. They show us in four differentways the mountain of Holyhead. This mountain,which is about 700 feet high, is seen far out atsea when you are coming to Wales from Ireland.The harbour of Holyhead is at its foot, and herethe steamers land their passengers from Dublin. Fig. 82b has been drawn in the same way asmany of the other maps in this book. We havesupposed the sea to rise 600 feet up the sides of themountain, as we saw it rise just now up to theneck of the man. The dot

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