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LLANGIAN. I A correspondent writesOn Christmas Day I had occasion to visit the little village of Llangian, situate on the eastern side of the southern part of the promontory of Lleyn-a most retired loca- lity, and one which I should thinlc is not much visited by strangers. The village is a small one, but neat and clean, and is cosily built under a range of hills, which entirely shelter it from the north and east winds. The principal object of attraction is the Church, which is a plain and unpretending structure outiide; but in- side it is one of the neatest and best fitted up churches whioh I have seen in this part of Wales. The church- yard seems in a crowded state, judging from the number of tombstones which abound in every part of it. In one comer of it is the vault of the Nanhoron family- Llan- giap being their parish church. The inscriptions on the tombstones are mostly in Welsh, as might have been ex- pected, but on looking I could not observe any very par- ticular epitaph, only the common ones generally used by friends of the deceased. A little before churchtime I strolled iuto the Church to have a good peep at it with- out the chance of disturbing people's devotions, or of being irreverent myself. The building is a little narrow, and there is oue straight aisle right up the centre which leads directly to the chancel. The pews, which seem very clean, good, and commodious, are what we call open ones, so that in this respect there can be no distinction in the House of God between the poor and rioh in this beautiful little Welsh church. The desk is on the right-hand side and the pulpit on the left facing the main body of the church and dividing it from the chancel. They are light, airy-looking structures, and are remarkably neat, as, indeed, is everything else inside this church. There are a number of elegant marble tab- lets and monuments almost solely in memorial of differ- ent members of the Nanhoran family, and one a most chaste and beautiful marble scroll records the death of a gallant son of the present worthy Squire, who was killed during the Crimean war at the head of his regi- ment at the early age of 22 years. There is also a marble tablet to the memory of the liev. John Rees, who was curate of the parish for 36 years, and rector of Aberdaron for 24, and who died at the patriarchial ago of 85. His daughter, Mrs. Annie Kichards, now lives at Tynycae, which was also her father's residence, with her two sons, the Rev. T. Hardy Richards, curate of the parish, and Mr. David Richards. The service on this occasion was read by the curate, who preached an ap. propriate sermon touching the nativity of our Saviour. r"t:'f:an that church congregations are in- creasing in this ncighbourhood both at Uangia.n and Llanengan, and I hope they will continue to do so. In the afternoon I rambled off to the sister village of Llan- engan, the two villages being about a mile apart. There is a fine rectory house near to the village, which I be- lieve has been greatly improved, enlarged, and renovated by the present kind rector, the Rev. Thomas Jones, for- merly vicar of Pwllheli. The church here is much larger than that of Llangian-double the size I should say-but I did not go inside so that I cannot describe its Internal appearance. The village is also larger than Llangian but the streets are uneven, pudley, and irre- gular. This part of Lleyn is composed of a large level plain about 5 or 6 miles in breadth and lengthways it ex- tends to the sea, at ,the extremity being the famouS small bay called Hell's Mouth," and which formerly was such a terror to seamen. This plain is flanked oil the west by the Rhiw mountain and other hills; and on the east by the hills skirting Abersoch and St. Tudwell's Roads. The land is said to be very good and fertile in most parts of the plain, and I should say it was so from the portion which I have traversed. A trip to this part of Wales would be very agreeable in the summer time but in the middle of winter it certainly offers nothing very attractive to the tourist or the scenery seeker. In Llanengan there is a commodious National School, and about half- .vay between the two villages is a large British School, erected, it states, in the year 1845. Near to this last-named school, and situate on a gentle eminence, is a nioc-looking country residence, occupied, as I learned, by Mr. Williams, surgeon. The people all seem kind and hospitable, and so prove themselves true descendants of the ancient Cymry.

LLANLLECHID, SCHOOL TREAT.

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