"Notes d’un voyage aux ardoisières du Pays de Galles"

Name of traveller

C. Larivière

Reason for travel

• study of industry

Date of travel

undated, ca. early 1880s

Les ardoises du district de Festiniog sont gris bleuâtre et présentent une grande analogie avec celles d’Angers. (Larivière 515)

Content

• architecture: workers houses comfortably constructed
• industry:
  
  • compares quarry industry in Wales with Angers in France
  • discussion of child labour and women workers
• language:
  • predominantly uses English technical terminology in the report, except for the Welsh term "coeth"
  • notes that only a minute number of 2-3 per cent of workers speak English
  • comparison between mines in Wales and Cornwall
• terrain: geological descriptions of colour and composition of slate from different quarries
• transport:
  • provides statistics on trains
  • discusses gravity trains, steam trains, horse-drawn trains and various types of locomotives
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Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

scientific study

Citation

Larivière, C. "Notes d’un voyage aux ardoisières du Pays de Galles." Annales des Mines 6 (1884): 505-564. Print.