slate-quarries

Updated: August 31, 2025

The prosperity of the town is largely due to the great slate-quarries of the vicinity, but the distillation of liqueurs from fruit, cable, rope and thread-making, and the manufacture of boots and shoes, umbrellas and parasols are leading industries.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1