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BARRY , an See also:

urban See also:district and seaport of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, on the See also:Bristol Channel, 153 M. by See also:rail from See also:London and 8 in. S.W. from See also:Cardiff. Its station is a See also:terminus on the Barry• railway, which starts at Hafod in the See also:Rhondda Valley, where it joins the Taff Vale railway, having also junctions with the same See also:line fer See also:Aberdare and Merthyr at Treforest, and for Cardiff and See also:Penarth at Cogan, and with the See also:Great Western See also:main line at Peterstone and St Fagans. A See also:branch from the main line at Tyn-y-caeau connects with the See also:Rhymney railway, the London, & See also:North-Western railway, and the See also:Brecon & Merthyr railway. The Vale of Glamorgan railway (which is worked by the Barry See also:company and has a junction with the Great Western railway at See also:Bridgend) affords a See also:direct route to Barry from the Llynvi, Ogmore and Garw coalfields. The urban district of Barry, with a See also:population in 1901 of 27,030, comprises the ecclesiastical parishes of Barry, Cadoxton, Merthyr-Dovan, and a portion of See also:Sully in which is included Barry See also:Island (194 acres), now, however, joined to the mainland. The See also:total population of this See also:area in 1881 was only about 500, that of Barry See also:village alone being only 85. A small See also:brook named Barri runs here into the See also:sea, whence the See also:place was formerly known in Welsh as Aber-Barri, but the name of both the See also:river and the island is supposed to be derived from See also:Baruch,. a Welsh See also:saint of the 7th See also:century, who had a See also:cell on the island. His See also:chapel (which still existed in See also:Leland's See also:time) was a place of See also:pilgrimage in the See also:middle ages. According to Giraldus, his own See also:family derived its name de Barri from the island which they once owned: One of the followers of Fitzhamon settled at Barry about the end of the 11th century, See also:building there a See also:castle of which only a gateway remains. Besides the small old See also:parish churches of Merthyr-Dovan and Cadoxton, and the rebuilt parish See also:church of Barry, there are four See also:modern churches (in one of which Welsh services are held). There are about See also:thirty See also:nonconformist chapels, in nearly a third of which the services are Welsh.

There are also a See also:

Roman See also:Catholic church, and • one for See also:German and Scandinavian See also:seamen. The other public buildings are a See also:county intermediate school for 250 boys and girls, built in 1896, a See also:free library (opened in 1892) with four branch See also:reading-rooms, a seamen's See also:institute, the Barry See also:market, built in 1890 at a; cost of £3500 (but now used as a See also:concert-See also:hall), and See also:Romilly hall for public, meetings. Barry owes its seaport to the determination of a number of colliery owners to secure an alternative See also:port to' Cardiff, with an See also:independent railway to it from the coalfields. After failing in 1883, they obtained See also:parliamentary See also:powers for this purpose in 1884, and the first sod of the new See also:dock at Barry was cut in See also:November of that See also:year. The docks are 114 acres in extent, and have See also:accommodation for the largest vessels afloat. Dock No. 1, opened on the 18th of See also:July 1889, is 73 acres (with a See also:basin of 7 acres) and occupies the eastern See also:side of the old channel between the island and the mainland, having a well-sheltered deep-sea entrance. There is See also:good anchorage between Barry and Sully islands. Dock No. 2 (34 acres) was opened on the rotb of See also:October 1898. There are 41 acres of See also:timber-ponds and three large graving-docks. For loading the See also:coal there are thirty fixed and seven movable coal-hoists.

The total See also:

tonnage of the exports in 1906 was 9,757,380 (all of which, except 26,491 tans, was coal), and of the imports 506,103 tons. See also:BAR-SALIM, See also:JACOB or See also:DIONYSIUS,1 the best-known and most voluminous writer in the Syrian Jacobite church of the 12th century, was, like Bar-Hebraeus, a native of See also:Malatia on the Upper See also:Euphrates. In .1154 he was created See also:bishop of See also:Mar'ash by the See also:patriarch See also:Athanasius VIII.; a year later the See also:diocese of Mabbog was added to his . See also:charge. In 1166 See also:Michael I., the successor of Athanasius, transferred him to the See also:metropolitan see of Amid in See also:Mesopotamia, and there he remained till his See also:death in 1171. A See also:long See also:account of his writings, with copious extracts from some of them, has been given by See also:Assemani (Bibl. Orient. ii. pp. 156-2r r); and W. See also:Wright (See also:Syriac Literature, pp. 246-250) has added further particulars as to the See also:MSS. in which they are contained. Probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the See also:text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he has skilfully interwoven and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as Ephrem, See also:Chrysostom, See also:Cyril, See also:Moses Bar-Kepha and See also:John of See also:Dana, whom he mentions together in the See also:preface to his commentary on St See also:Matthew. Among his other main See also:works are a See also:treatise against heretics, containing inter alia a polemic against the See also:Jews and the Mahommedans; Iiturgical See also:treatises, epistles and homilies. His commentaries on the Gospels were to some extent used by See also:Dudley See also:Loftus in the 17th century.

But the systematic editing of his Jacob was' his baptismal name; Dionysius he assumed when consecrated to the bishopric.works was only begun in 1903 with H. Labourt's edition and See also:

translation of his Exposition of the See also:Liturgy (See also:Paris). His commentaries on the Gospels have been edited and translated by J. Sedlacek and J. B. See also:Chabot (Fast. I., Paris, 2906), and the Syriac text of the treatise against the Jews has been edited by J. de Zwaan (See also:Leiden, 1906). Bar-*See also:alibi was undoubtedly an able theologian; his vigour combined with terseness in See also:argument is well seen, for instance, in the See also:introductory sections of his commentary on St Matthew. Of his originality it is hard to See also:judge, as he does not usually indicate in detail the See also:sources of his arguments and interpretations. He does not, however, claim for himself to be more than a compiler, at least in his commentaries. His Syriac See also:style is good, considering the lateness of the See also:period at which he wrote. (N.

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