BALA
, a See also:market-See also:town and See also:urban See also:district of Merionethshire, N
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See also:Wales, at the See also:north end of Bala See also:Lake, 17 M
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N.E. of See also:Dolgelley (Dolgellau)
.
Pop
.
(1901) 1554• It is little more than one wide See also:street
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Its manufactures are See also:flannel, stockings, gloves and See also:hosiery (for which it was well known in the 18th See also:century)
.
The See also:Tower of Bala (some 30 ft. high by 50 See also:diameter) is a See also:tumulus or " See also:moat-See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill," formerly thought to See also:mark the site of a See also:Roman See also:camp
.
The theological See also:college of the Calvinistic Methodists and the See also:grammar school- (endowed), which was founded in 1712, are the See also:chief features, together with the statue of the Rev
.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Charles, the distinguished theological writer, to whom was largely due the See also:foundation of the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society
.
Bala Lake, the largest in Wales (4 M. See also:long by some 1 m. wide), is subject to sudden and dangerous floods, deep and clear, and full of See also:pike, See also:perch, See also:trout, See also:eel and See also:gwyniad
.
The gwyniad (Caregonus) is See also:peculiar to certain See also:waters, as those of Bala Lake, and is fully described by Thomas See also:Pennant in his See also:Zoology (1776)
.
The lake (Llyn Tegid) is crossed by the See also:Dee, See also:local tradition having it that the waters of the two never mix, like those of See also:Alpheus and the See also:sea
.
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