a new being, and live another life here. Thus, the market is removed from the once celebrated Llanbadarn-vawr, and the Custom-house from the Port of Aberdovey; and they now form necessary components to the rising consequence of Aberystwyth.

The Custom-house stands on the south-west part of the Terrace, and makes the corner of Pier Street. It was erected in 1773, when the business was removed from Aberdovey.

Above the Custom-house are two very commodious houses called Mount Pleasant; true taste perhaps, may wish they were called by any other appellation-unless it were Mount Zion, Tabernacle Row, or Tribulation Walk; for as these designations occur in almost all towns where fanatics have a footing, so the dull and clay-cold spirit of imitation has her Mounts Pleasant, Prospect Rows, and Constitution Hills, in as many multiplied repetitions as the far-famed, ever-canted epitaph of “Affliction sore, long time I bore, &c." "But," quotes the less fastidious traveller,

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet."

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Yet, in spite of sweet poetry, and Juliet's sweeter lips that speak it, there's much in a name, "aye, marry is there!" and we still maintain, that Mount Pleasant would be much pleasanter under any less hackneyed distinction. But to return-of these two houses one is private, the other a Lodging House, capable of affording accommodation to a large family, or divisible into various apartments.

Above this house is a gateway, which admits to a walk in front of that unique and beautiful pile, called the Castle House, which commands a gratifying view of the Ocean and Castle Ruins on one side, and of the Church, Assembly Rooms, and part of the town, on the other. It was erected by Mr. Uvedale Price, of Foxley Hall, Herefordshire, for his own private residence. It is a singularly handsome edifice, in the Gothic style, and of a castellated form, consisting of three octagonal towers, with a light and very elegant balcony on the side towards the sea. The building was, at one time, enveloped with ivy, and, it is the general opinion, has lost much of its original beauty by being more modernized, as the ivy has been torn away, and the outside walls, (which, in

termixed with brick, are of the rough mountain stone, peculiar to this country,) stuccoed. It is now a Lodging House attached to the Talbot Inn.* On the Terrace are also two Bathing Houses, one, about the centre, distinguished as the Warm Bath, the other, the Marine Bath, built among the rocks, at the northern extremity; and on the beach, always ready with the attendant women, watching for occupants, are the Machines for Sea Bathing. It is an agreeable subject of reflection, while viewing the Marine Terrace, that a few years ago, the spot which it now occupies, was as void and noteless as any other low flat part of the coast. The houses were built at different periods, and the Terrace began to show something of its present form in 1819; since which, the Promenade was constructed by a general subscription of the inhabitants. At the rate they have lately been forwarding new buildings, it may be safely calculated, that in a few

"When I viewed this," observes the Rev. Mr. Evans in his tour," with the dilapidated fragments of the time-worn building by its side, I could not suppress a smile, and thought, if the heroes of antiquity could return, with what contempt they would survey this mimickry of the antique." But this pile, however trifling when compared with the massive grandeur of ancient architecture, stands pre-eminent among the structures of the present day.

years the space will be completely filled; when it will doubtless present a beautiful and light range of structures, superior, perhaps, to those of any Bathing Town in the principality of Wales.

The Assembly Rooms.

Nothing can more strikingly evince the enterprising spirit which actuates certain liberal characters at Aberystwyth, than the sudden growth of many excellent and commodious buildings; and more especially attractive to the votaries of taste and fashion, that which gave existence to the Public Rooms, which stand on an open and elevated spot, commanding a fine view of the sea, and separated merely by the Church-yard from those delightful walks, the Castle Ruins. The building was erected, on a plan from Mr. Repton, an eminent London Architect, by subscription, at equal shares of ten pounds each. The town is indebted for the ground on which it stands, to the liberality of W. E. Powell, Esq. M. P. of Nanteos, Lord Lieutenant of the county, whose gift it is.

The Rooms were opened to the public on

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the first day of July, 1820. They consist of a very handsome

BALL AND PROMENADE ROOM,

forty-five feet by twenty-five, elegantly decorated with every characteristic peculiarity to distinguish a place of the most fashionable resort. During the day, and on those evenings when there are no Balls or Promenades, the Ball Room is used as

A READING room,

which is supplied with a continual succession of London and Provincial Papers, Magazines, Reviews, and other Periodical Works. Next in rotation comes

A CARD ROOM,

twenty-five feet by eighteen, communicating with the Ball Room by folding doors, with a handsome central lamp, and decorations corresponding with those in the Ball Room. And lastly

A BILLIARD ROOM,

the same size as the Card Room. Under the same roof there is a Dwelling House, with a bar, &c. to provide the Subscribers with

REFRESHMENTS.