BARRY  , an

urban district and seaport of Glamorganshire, Wales, on the Bristol Channel, 153 M. by rail from London and 8 in . S.W. from Cardiff . Its station is a terminus on the Barry• railway, which starts at Hafod in the Rhondda Valley, where it joins the Taff Vale railway, having also junctions with the same line fer Aberdare and Merthyr at Treforest, and for Cardiff and Penarth at Cogan, and with the Great Western main line at Peterstone and St Fagans . A branch from the main line at Tyn-y-caeau connects with the Rhymney railway, the London, & North-Western railway, and the Brecon & Merthyr railway . The Vale of Glamorgan railway (which is worked by the Barry company and has a junction with the Great Western railway at Bridgend) affords a direct route to Barry from the Llynvi, Ogmore and Garw coalfields . The urban district of Barry, with a population in 1901 of 27,030, comprises the ecclesiastical parishes of Barry, Cadoxton, Merthyr-Dovan, and a portion of Sully in which is included Barry Island (194 acres), now, however, joined to the mainland . The total population of this area in 1881 was only about 500, that of Barry village alone being only 85 . A small brook named Barri runs here into the sea, whence the place was formerly known in Welsh as Aber-Barri, but the name of both the river and the island is supposed to be derived from Baruch,. a Welsh saint of the 7th century, who had a cell on the island . His chapel (which still existed in Leland's time) was a place of pilgrimage in the middle ages . According to Giraldus, his own 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, 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 £3500 (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 rotb 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 tans, was coal), and of the imports 506,103 tons . BAR-SALIM, 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 Mabbog was added to his . charge . In 1166 Michael I., the successor of Athanasius, transferred him to the metropolitan see of Amid 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 . 156-2r r); and W . Wright (Syriac Literature, pp . 246-250) has added further particulars as to the MSS. in which they are contained . Probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he has skilfully interwoven and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as Ephrem, Chrysostom, Cyril, Moses Bar-Kepha and John of Dana, whom he mentions together in the preface to his commentary on St Matthew . Among his other main works are a treatise against heretics, containing inter alia a polemic against the Jews and the Mahommedans; Iiturgical treatises, epistles and homilies . His commentaries on the Gospels were to some extent used by Dudley 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

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