Merioneth (Merio`neth) , a mountainous county of North Wales, abutting on Cardigan Bay, between Carnarvon and Cardigan; lofty peaks, Aran Mowddy, Cader Idris, and Aran Benllyn; rivers, Dee and Dovey, and Lake Bala afford picturesque scenery; the soil is fit only for sheep-grazing; but there are slate and limestone quarries, manganese and gold mines; the county town, Dolgelly (2), on the Wnion, has woollen and tweed manufactures.
Population (circa 1900) given as 49,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mèrimèe, Prosper * Merivale, Charles