Starting from York in the morning, and passing through Leeds, Manchester, and Chester, I reached Bangor in the afternoon, and had my first interview with Mr.Jones that very evening.
I found him, as Miss Grace Ellis had described, active, vigorous, and intelligent; his stature short, his face well-formed, his eyes keen and bright.

I was first shown into his little parlour downstairs, furnished with his books and some of his instruments; I was then taken to his tiny room upstairs, where he had his big reflecting telescope, by means of which he had seen, through the chamber window, the snowcap of Mars.

He is so fond of philology that I found he had no fewer than twenty-six dictionaries, all bought out of his own earnings.

"I am fond of all knowledge," he said--"of Reuben, Dan, and Issachar; but I have a favourite, a Benjamin, and that is Astronomy.

I would sell all of them into Egypt, but preserve my Benjamin." His story is briefly as follows:-- "I was born at Bryngwyn Bach, Anglesey, in 1818, and I am sixty-five years old.