nd other ancient historians. There are numerous figures
of towns, animals, birds, and fish, with grotesque customs, such as the
mediaeval geographers believed to exist in different parts of the world;
Babylon with its famous tower; Rome, the capital of the world, bearing the
inscription--_'Roma, caput mundi, tenet orbis frena rotundi'_; and Troy as
'_civitas bellicosissima_.' In Great Britain most of the cathedrals are
mentioned; but of Ireland the author seems to have known very little.

"Amongst the many points of interest are the columns of Hercules, the
Labyrinth of Crete, the pyramids in Egypt, the house of bondage, the
journeys of the Children of Israel, the Red Sea, Mount Sinai, with a
figure of Moses and his supposed place of burial, the Phoenician Jews
worshipping the molten image, Lot's wife," etc.

*Bishop's Cloisters.*--At the eastern end of the south nave aisle a door
opens to the cloisters connecting the cathedral with the episcopal palace.
In the cloister is placed a monument and inscription to Colonel John
Matthews of Belmont, near Hereford, who died 1826. The subject, "Grief
consoled by an Angel," is carved in Caen stone.

Other monuments are:--one to the Hon. Edward Grey, D.D., formerly Bishop of
Hereford, 1832 to 1837. He died July 1837, and is buried beneath the
bishop's throne. A monument to Bishop George Isaac Huntingford, D.D., 1815
to 1832. He died in his eighty-fourth year, April 1832, and was buried at
Compton, near Winchester. Also a monument to Dr. Clarke Whitfield, an
organist of the cathedral.

The following inscription, on an ancient brass, affixed to a gravestone
near the west part of the cathedral, which, being taken off, was kept in
the city tolsey or hall for some time until it was finally fastened to a
freestone on the west side of the Bishop's Cloisters:--

"Good Christeyn People of your Charite
That here abide in this transitorye life,
For the souls of Richard Philips pray ye,
And also of Anne his dere beloved wife,
Which here togeder continued without stryfe
In this Worshipful City called Hereford by Name,
He being 7 times Mayer and Ruler of the same:
Further, to declare of his port and fame,
His pitie and compassion of them that were in woe,
To do works of charitie his hands were nothing lame,
Throughe him all people here may freely come and goe
Without paying of Custom, Toll, or other Woe.
The which Things to redeme he left both House and Land