Excerpt from Wales, 1894, Vol. 1: A National Magazine for the English Speaking Parts of WalesBut Wales is not entirely Welsh-speaking. Radnorshire was Welsh two hundred years ago, now Welsh is not S oken in it at all. Herefordshire, three hun red years ago, was largely Welsh-speaking, even from the valley of the Honddu Welsh has retreated, as a widow told me some years ago, telling me at the same time that her husband was the last man who could speak Welsh and play the harp in that valley. I saw the harp, with all its strings broken.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.