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It is a small country, in many ways the archetype of a small country, but its smallness is not petty: on the contrary, it is profound. Intense and unaccommodating continuity is the essence of the place, and if its frontiers were ever to be extended, or its nature somehow eased, its personality would lose stature, not gain it.

BROODED over by mist, more often than swirled about by cloud, drizzled rather than storm-swept, on the western perimeter of Europe lies the damp, demanding and obsessively interesting country called by its own people Cymru, signifying it is thought a comradeship, and known to the rest of the world, if it is known at all, as Wales.