afforded a seat for the contemplation of the wide expanse of the ocean, which is seen beyond the little island of Puffin, or Priestholm; so called from the quantity of birds of that species, which resort here in the summer months. The cathedral has been built at different times, but no part very ancient; the church was burnt down by Owen Glendwr, in the reign of King Henry IV.; the choir was afterwards built by Bishop Henry Dene, (or Deane), between the years 1496 and 1500; the tower and nave by Bishop Skevington, in 1532. The whole is Gothic architecture, and the interior of the cathedral has, within the last six years, been altered, and now presents a most imposing effect. The choir, which formerly was only fifty-two feet in length, has been extended into the nave, and is in length 110 feet from the east window; the remaining part of the nave has been neatly fitted up with free pews, for the Welsh congregation, and will accommodate about 700 persons. The choir will contain about 600 persons. The late improvements were done by a public subscription, which amounted to nearly 4000_l._ and the money has been expended in the most beneficial and tasteful manner, under the superintendance of the Rev. J. H. Cotton, Precentor and Senior Vicar, by whose praise-worthy exertions, the money was collected in different parts of the United Kingdom. There are several bishops {200} buried in the choir. I could dwell with pleasure on the picturesque beauties of this little episcopal see; but a repetition of the same epithets, grand, beautiful, sublime, fine, with a long catalogue, which must necessarily occur, would appear tautologous on paper, though their archetypes in nature would assume new colours at every change of position of the beholder. This bishopric owes the chief of its revenues and immunities to Anian, bishop of the diocese, in the reign of Edward the First; who, being in high favour with that monarch, and having had the honour of christening the young prince, born at Caernarvon, afterwards Edward the Second, had, as a compensation for the temporalities confiscated in the reign of King Henry the Third, various manors, ferries, and grants from the revenues of the principality allotted to the see. Mr. Evans, in his valuable work, the Topography of North Wales, has clearly refuted the improbable charge made against Bishop Bulkely, of having sold the cathedral bells; and, on the contrary, proves from documents, that the cathedral was indebted to him for considerable repairs, and that likewise by his will he was a benefactor to it; this falsehood, which originated with Godwin, in his Treatise, entitled “De Presulibus,” as a piece of scandal against the church, met with but too ready a belief from former tourists, whose false records Mr. Evans deserves great credit for refuting.