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when I spoke of this new college in this City of 

 Bangor as the University College of North Wales. 

 My friend, Mr. Cadwaladr Davies, your secretary, 

 has reminded me that there was a university of 

 North Wales at Bangor-is-y-coed, in Flintshire 

 not a city, because it did not combine a bishop 

 and a mayor but a town which had the honour 

 of having been the seat of the first Welsh uni- 

 versity known to history. There may have been 

 universities in Wales before the one which 

 flourished 1200 years ago at Bangor-is-y-coed ; 

 but their history is lost in the long night of 

 silence, because no sacred bard sung of their 

 existence. The university of Bangor-is-y-coed 

 had its bard, who tells us that the institution had 

 2100 students. There you have a worthy object 

 of ambition for the city of Bangor ! May it soon 

 have a goodly proportion of the 2100. Perhaps 

 not so long a time may elapse before your college 

 and the other colleges in Wales may reach to such 

 a number. Indeed, I do not see anything un- 

 reasonable in hoping and expecting that in a 

 dozen years there will be 2100 university-students 



