Among them we find princes, baronets, clergymen, professors, doctors, solicitors, manufacturers, and inventors.

Then we come to the portrait painter, who acquired the highest supremacy in the art of telescope making; then to Mr.Lassell, the retired brewer, whose daughters presented his instrument to the nation; and, lastly, to the extraordinary young schoolmaster of Bainbridge, in Yorkshire.

And now before I conclude this last chapter, I have to relate perhaps the most extraordinary story of all--that of another astronomer in humble life, in the person of a slate counter at Port Penrhyn, Bangor, North Wales.
While at Birnam, I received a letter from my old friend the Rev.
Charles Wicksteed, formerly of Leeds, calling my attention to this case, and inclosing an extract from the letter of a young lady, one of his correspondents at Bangor.

In that letter she said: "What you write of Mr.Christmas Evans reminds me very much of a visit I paid a few evenings ago to an old man in Upper Bangor.

He works on the Quay, but has a very decided taste for astronomy, his leisure time being spent in its study, with a great part of his earnings.