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here a temple which he dedicated to the 

 goddefs Minerva.* 



On a rocky eminence, about a quarter of 

 a mile eaft from Bangor, flood formerly a 

 caftle built by Hugh, Earl of Chefter, fome- 

 time during the reign of William II. -f- The 

 date of it's demolition is not known. 



The cathedral is a finall dirty-looking 

 building, dedicated to St. Daniel. The nave 

 is about an hundred and ten feet long, and 

 fixty wide; the tranfepts fixty by twenty 

 five; and the choir fifty-four by twenty-fix. 



It appears to have been firft erected by 

 MaelgwnGwynedd, Prince of North Wales, 

 about the year 550 ; and Daniel, the fon 

 of Dinothus, Abbot of Bangor-is-coed, in 

 Flintshire, who had, about thirty years 

 before, founded a college or monaftcy 



* Lcland's Coll. de reb. Brit. II. 425. 

 t Speed's Chronicle> ch. XIV. p. 123. 



K 4 here, 



