Bethesda is a small town of Carnarvonshire (so named from its Nonconformist chapel), 4½ miles SE. of Bangor. Its 5799 inhabitants are mostly employed in the neighbouring Penrhyn slate-quarries.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 108
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