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I" south 222 iect-a little less than Lincoln,
&C less than ST. Paul's. Tie central
tower, though 2l3 feet high is hardly more
than half the Height Of the famous srire
of Salisbury. One of the most notable things
about the minister is the east window IS
feet high and 30 wide divided into III COM
rartments, each representing in stained glass
scene from scripture. The organ is the
largest in England have heard it said the
largest in the vorld-huving ~ stops and
5000 pipes The great bell Designed for one
of the west towers stopped in mid career as
1t was being hoistcd and would 90 neither up
nor down, there it sticks fast. half way
up the Tower. g Great Peter" never has
word TO say with his own tongue, but
great stout fellow sometimes hammers on
him and then he talks like an oracle.
Besides the Minister, York has twenty
three churches, not reckoning the chope's-
which term, you must understand. is used in
| England to designate all places of worship
/ except the churches of the establishment 49,
! You can hardly walk a dozen PAGES without
seing two or three little old grey churches,
some Of them SO near together that the SER
vice being performed in enc can be heard in
the other. And yet numerous as they are,
eighteen have been demolished since tina
Reformation. An old chroniclcr SAYS that
before the Reformation there were. mostly
within the circuit Of the walls " fortv-two
parish churches, three or four famous Alb
boys, two Priorcs, Nunnery, and relig-
ious College, besides seventeen private chap
els and eighteen Hospitals, all Of which had
reigned in great plenty and abundance for
several ages. Part Of the ruins Of St
Marys Abbey is still remaining, but a
great quantity of the stone was carried away
to build Beverly Minister, and some of il
was burned into lime on the spot what
would Sir Walter say to that
The palace Of the Archbishop of York is a
Bishop thorpe about three miles down the
, river Ouse--a quaint looking edifce ROOTED
: with tiles, but sadly dsfgurcd by the
addition Of kind of wing in the mod
ern Italian style. The readers of Englisl
} History will remember that the long dis
putes for precedence between the Archhlsh
ops of York and Canterbury were ended h,
the former being styled Primate Of England.
n and the latter I'rimatc of oil England.
n My Lord Of Canterbury crowns the sovereign
y. and my Lord of York, the Queen consort.
q Notwithstanding the importance Of Yor
in the time of the Romans, they have lct
c very few traces behind them. A few orna
ments and household utensils have been du
up, and two or three specimens Of tesselate
o pavement, but nothing of great curiosity
It Three mounds in the vicinity of the city ar
= shown to strangers as the tumuli raised
, the memory of Sevverus, the Roman Empcro
\ but a very grave doubt hangs over the trad
t ton | believe that the claim of York
% being tue "II.'. li-., &c Constantine is no
almost given up.
Il Apart from its antiquities, York has moth
l, ing to attract. The streets are old, ma
n row and sunless the projecting upper st
ries in some streets almost touch each othe
Very little business of any kind is done
York tradesman tells me that the citizen
like the Kilkenny cats. live on one anothe
Most of the streets are called grtes
JubberGate, Petergatc, Spurriergatc, &C.
have been trying to make ut that they a
c. so named not from the city gates which a
m or have been, but that gate" is an o
tn Yorkshire word for street or way, az it is
ID Scotland gang your ain gate RI
I'd fact that in many towns which never hi
I'd walls and gates the same nomenclature "
s. walls. adds something to my conviction
a " Goodramgate "a little low shop W
nd pointed out to me as the place where IIu
or son, the Railway King, formerly did smf
1t business in the grocery line.
tv Your chroncler,
rs GRfFFIIu