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Dick Turpin was imprisoned in the neighbourhood. I 

 devoted one whole morniDg walking round the Walls 

 of York ; they are provided, in the inside with a boarded 

 walk, high in the air and are one of the most striking 

 features of York ; they are very ancient ; the exact 

 date of their erection is unknown, some portions are 

 supposed to have been built on the foundations of the 

 Eoman Wall, one angle of which was the singular 

 structure, well preserved and known from its ten angles 

 as the Multangular Tower, one of the barriers of Ebo- 

 racum at the time of its occupation by the Eomans. 



I can only direct your attention as we hurry on, to 

 the lofty, medieval city Gates, or Bars of which there 

 are four principal ones and two smaller. Meikel Bar 

 is the largest and most interesting. It consists of a 

 square tower built over a circular arch, with embattled 

 turrets at the angles surmounted by stone figures ; the 

 arch is stated to be Norman. The arms of England 

 and of old France quarterly, between two shields sur- 

 mounted by canopies, and containing those of the city 

 of York, are sculptured upon shields against the front. 

 The Duke of York's head, after his execution, in 1460, 

 was fixed here. 



I might mention also Bootham Bar, Monk Bar, 

 Wolmgate Bar, Fishergate Bar, Victoria Bar ; the latter, 

 a modern gate. 



Few cities of 60,000 can exhibit such an array of 

 churches. In addition to the Minster, there are twenty- 

 five other temples of worship ; in olden times, their 

 were forty churches. 



" The ways to grace, in York, as Mark Twain said 

 of Montreal, are numerous, " t'would be hard for a 

 boy to throw a stone there, without risk of breaking a 

 church window. 



Modern York might be summed up as iollows : 



. " Even those who are the last susceptible of impres- 

 sions cannot fail to be struck with admiration when, 

 emerging from the Eailway Station, the first view of 



