settled at Barry about
the end of the 11th century, building there a castle of which only a
gateway remains. Besides the small old parish churches of Merthyr-Dovan and
Cadoxton, and the rebuilt parish church of Barry, there are four modern
churches (in one of which Welsh services are held). There are about thirty
nonconformist chapels, in nearly a third of which the services are Welsh.
There are also a Roman Catholic church, and one for German and Scandinavian
seamen. The other public buildings are a county intermediate school for 250
boys and girls, built in 1896, a free library (opened in 1892) with four
branch reading-rooms, a seamen's institute, the Barry market, built in 1890
at a cost of L3500 (but now used as a concert-hall), and Romilly hall for
public meetings.

Barry owes its seaport to the determination of a number of colliery owners
to secure an alternative port to Cardiff, with an independent railway to it
from the coalfields. After failing in 1883, they obtained parliamentary
powers for this purpose in 1884, and the first sod of the new dock at Barry
was cut in November of that year. The docks are 114 acres in extent, and
have accommodation for the largest vessels afloat. Dock No. 1, opened on
the 18th of July 1889, is 73 acres (with a basin of 7 acres) and occupies
the eastern side of the old channel between the island and the mainland,
having a well-sheltered deep-sea entrance. There is good anchorage between
Barry and Sully islands. Dock No. 2 (34 acres) was opened on the 10th of
October 1898. There are 41 acres of timber-ponds and three large
graving-docks. For loading the coal there are thirty fixed and seven
movable coal-hoists. The total tonnage of the exports in 1906 was 9,757,380
(all of which, except 26,491 tons, was coal), and of the imports 506,103
tons.

BAR-[S.]AL[=I]B[=I], JACOB or 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 Malatia on the Upper Euphrates. In 1154 he
was created bishop of Mar'ash by the patriarch Athanasius VIII.; a year
later the diocese of Mabb[=o]g was added to his charge. In 1166 Michael I.,
the successor of Athanasius, transferred him to the metropolitan see of
[=A]mid in Mesopotamia, and there he remained till his death in 1171. A
long account of his writings, with copious extracts from some of them, has
been given by Assemani (_Bibl. Orient._ ii. pp. 156-211); and W. Wri