a parliamentary borough and market town of Caernarvonshire, North Wales, nine miles N.E. of Caernarvon, to which it is a contributory borough. It consists mainly of one narrow crooked street of nearly a mile in length, stretching N.E. and S.W. through a romantic valley between two ridges of rock. It stands near the northern entrance of the Menai Strait, and the beauty of its scenery attracts many visitors, whose numbers have greatly increased since the completion of the Chester and Holyhead Railway and the Britannia tubular bridge. The principal buildings are the cathedral, Episcopal palace, deanery-house, Roman Catholic chapel, several dissenting meeting-houses, free school, union poorhouse, infirmary, market-house, assembly-rooms, temperance-hall, three banks, and railway-station. The cathedral is an embattled cruciform structure, with a low massive tower crowned with pinnacles. It occupies the site of a more ancient edifice, originally founded about 525, but destroyed by the Anglo-Normans in 1071. It was afterwards rebuilt, but suffered severely in the wars between the Welsh and Henry III.; and in 1402 it was burned down during the ravages of Owen Glyndwr. For more than ninety years it remained in ruins. The choir was rebuilt by Bishop Dean in the time of Henry VII., and the tower and nave were added by Bishop Skeffington in 1532. The principal trade of Bangor consists in the export of slates, which are raised in the quarries six miles distant, and conveyed by a railway to Port Penrhyn, at the mouth of the River Cegid, a little to the east of the town. This port is accessible for vessels of from 200 to 300 tons at all states of the tide, and has a quay upwards of 300 yards in length. Pop. of burgh in 1851, 6338.

seaport and market town of Ireland, county Down, on the south side of Belfast Lough, 12 miles E.N.E. of Belfast. Pop. in 1851, 2850. It carries on a considerable cotton and linen trade, and a fishery; and has a savings-bank, market-house, a parish church, several chapels, and a public library. It is frequented as a bathing-place. Remains of an ancient abbey, said to have been destroyed by the Danes in 820, are still to be seen.

seaport town in the state of Maine, North America, capital of the county of Penobscot, on the river of that name, 60 miles from the sea. Lat. 44. 47. 50. N. Long. 68. 47. W. The harbor is spacious, and affords anchorage for the largest vessels at high tide. The chief article of trade is timber. There are several good schools and a theological seminary here, and numerous churches of various denominations. Pop. 14,432.

There is another small town of this name in the state of New York, county of Franklin, 152 miles N.N.W. of Albany. Pop. 2160.

Bangor-y-coed, a village of North Wales, in a detached portion of Flintshire, on the Dee. Pop. 554. It was the site of one of the largest monasteries in Britain, founded before the year 180, and said to have contained in 596 no fewer than 2400 monks. Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, in the beginning of the seventh century, massacred 1200 of these ecclesiastics, and destroyed their monastery. Bangor-y-coed No traces of it are visible.