a principality in the west of England, comprehending 12 counties, bounded by Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire, on the east, and surrounded by the sea called the Irish channel, on the north, west, and south.

NEW WALES, the south-west coast of Hudson's Bay, in North America, so called; now possessed by the English Hudson's Bay company.

WALL in architecture, the principal part of a building, as serving both to inclose it, and support the roof, floors, &c.

Walls are distinguished into various kinds, from the matter whereof they consist, as plastered or mud-walls, brick-walls, stone-walls, flint or boulder walls, and boarded walls. See Architecture.