BANGOR.

THE city of Bangor is situated at the foot of a steep rock in a narrow and fertile valley, near the north entrance of the Menai straits, and the mouth of the river Ogwen. Since the construction of that admirable work of art, the Menai Bridge, Bangor has risen into some importance, its proximity to the sea having given it the advantage of becoming a favourite bathing-place; and the views of Beaumaris Bay, and the Caernarvon mountains, from Garth point, are of the most picturesque, bold, and sublime character; the rides and walks around the city are numerous and pleasant.

Bangor was, in ancient times, a place of considerable note: the name is derived from ban, high or superior, and corr, a society, which means the chief choir.

About half a mile east of the city are the remains of the Castle, erected by Hugh, earl of Chester, in the reign of William II.

Hot.

Why, so it would have done

At the same season, if your mother's cat had
But kitten'd, though yourself had ne'er been born.
Glend.

I say, the earth did shake when I was born.
Hot. And I say, the earth was not of my mind,

If you suppose, as fearing you it shook.

Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. Hot. O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,

And not in fear of your nativity.

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth

In strange eruptions: oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of colick pinch'd and vex'd
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down
Steeples, and moss-grown towers. At your birth
Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,
In passion shook.