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in Wales. The population of Wales is more than 

 a million and a half, which is, I think, about a 

 fourth of the population of Scotland ; and I do 

 not see why Wales should not have university 

 students in proportion to its population as well as 

 Scotland. I believe the brightness and activity of 

 the Welsh intelligence will thoroughly take up the 

 idea of a university, and profit by it to the utmost, 

 and, I believe, the existence of this institution at 

 Bangor will before twenty years have passed away 

 be looked upon as having been a great benefit to 

 the Principality. What Wales gained by the 

 university at Bangor-is-y-coed can scarcely now 

 be told, but alas, for that university with its 2000 

 students, it was destroyed in the year 613 by 

 Ethelfred, King of Northumbria, and its de- 

 struction was followed by 900 years of dark ages. 

 Thus we see what the world lost by the annihilation 

 of the first university of North Wales. Another 

 bard, Lewis Glencothy, advocated and sang of the 

 possibility of a university in Wales in the time of 

 Henry VII. Richard Baxter, not a Welshman 

 nor a bard but the great English Puritan divine, 



