Crossword-Solution: ERYRI 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Snowdon or Eryri is no single hill, but a mountainous region, the loftiest part of which, called Y Wyddfa, nearly four thousand feet above the level of the sea, is generally considered to be the highest point of Southern Britain.

The name Snowdon was bestowed upon this region by the early English on account of its snowy appearance in winter; Eryri by the Britons, because in the old time it abounded with eagles, Eryri {5} in the ancient British language signifying an eyrie or breeding-place of eagles.

Pointing with my finger to the head of Snowdon towering a long way from us in the direction of the east, I said to Henrietta:— “Dacw Eryri, yonder is Snowdon.

The prospect, on every side, was noble: the blue interminable sea to the west and north; the whole stretch of Mona to the east; and far away to the south the mountainous region of Eryri, comprising some of the most romantic hills in the world.

From the snowy mountains of Eryri flows the noble river Devi, {162b} dividing for a great distance North and South Wales; and from the same mountains also the large river Maw, {162c} forming by its course the greater and smaller tract of sands called the Traeth Mawr and the Traeth Bachan.