house with the date 1466. These are some of the “newer” houses in the old part of the city. The streets in this section are about fifteen dr twenty feet wide, so built as to bebetter defended.The main feature of Ploermel is perhaps the cathedral of Saint Armel | which stands in the center of town. jThe building itself is “only” eight | hundred years old—but on the {ground it covers has stood a church for 1800 years. The stained glasswindows are magnificent. Nothing Iever saw in America approaches them. The interior is a large square from which four wings branch out, forming a cross. Some of the images! are beautiful examples of Medieval