and there are very few persons in the neighbourhood who seem to
know anything about them. They are very well worthy of a visit, and the
surrounding scenery is beautiful in the extreme. I shall be happy to put
any person in the way of finding them, should a desire be expressed in your
pages.

INVESTIGATOR.

Manchester.

[This is Fynnon Vair, or "the Well of Our Lady," situated in a
richly-wooded dell near the river Elwy, in the township of Wigvair.
This well, which is inclosed in a polygonal basin of hewn stone,
beautifully and elaborately sculptured, discharges about 100 gallons
per minute: the water is strongly impregnated with lime, and was
formerly much resorted to as a cold bath. Adjoining the well are the
ruins of an ancient cruciform chapel, which, prior to the Reformation,
was a chapel of ease to St. Asaph, in the later style of English
architecture: the windows, which are of handsome design, are now nearly
concealed by the ivy which has overspread the building; and the ruin,
elegant in itself, derives additional interest from the beauty of its
situation. See Lewis's _Wales_, and _Beauties of England and Wales_,
vol. xvii. p. 550.]

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_Wafers._--When and where were wafers invented? They were no new discovery
when Labat saw some at Genoa in 1706; but from a passage in his _Voyages
d'Espagne et Italie_, published in 1731, it would appear that they were
even then unknown in France. A writer in the _Quarterly Review_ says:

"We have in our possession letters with the wafers still adhering,
which went from Lisbon to Rome twenty years before that time; and
Stolberg observes that there are wafers and wafer-seals in the museum
at Portici."

ABHBA.

[Respecting the antiquity of wafers, Beckmann, in his _History of
Inventions_, vol. i. p. 146. (Bohn's edition), has the following
notice: "M. Spiess has made an observation which may lead to farther
researches, that the oldest seal with a red wafer he has ever yet
found, is on a letter written by D. Krapf at Spires, in the year 1624,
to the government of Bayreuth. M. Spiess has found also that some years
after, Forstenhaeusser, the Brandenburg factor at Nuremberg, sent such
wafers to a bailiff at Osternohe. It appears, however, that wafers were
not used during the whole of the seventeenth century in the chancery of
Brand