Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

Happiness. Seek not for happiness in self, But seek it round you everywhere The mind self-centred morbid grows, That way runs ruin with despair. Do good, and happiness will come Sooner than sorrowing heart perceives Springing perchance 'mong withered hopes, Like violet 'mong withered leaves.

Abiding Satisfactions. It is neccessary to habituate our minds in our younger years to some employment which may engage our thoughts and fill the capa- city of the soul at a riper age; for, however we may roam in youth from folly to folly-too volatile for rest, too soft and effeminate for industry, ever ambitious to make a splendid figure—yet the time 'will come when we shall outgrow the relish of childish amusements, and, if we are not provided with a taste for manly satisfactions to succeed in their room, we must, of course, become miserable at an age more difficult to be pleased. While men, however unthinking and unemployed, enjoy an in- exhaustible flow of vigorous spirits, a constant suc- cession of gay ideas, which flatter and sport in the brain, makes them pleased with themselves, and with every frolic as tripling as themselves; but when the ferment of their blood abates, and the freshness of their youth, like the morning dew, passes away, their spirits flag for want of enter- tainments more satisfactory in themselves, and more suited to a manly age; and the soul, from a sprightly impertinence, from quick sensations, and florid desires, subsides into a dead calm, and sinks into a flat stupidity. The fire of a glowing imagina- nation (the property of youth) may make folly look pleasing, and lend a beauty to objects which have none inherent in them, just as the sunbeams may paint a cloud, and diversify it with beautiful stains of light, however dark, unsubstantial, and empty in itself. But nothing can shine with undiminished lustre but religion and knowledge, which are essen- tially and intrinsically bright. Take it therefore for granted—which you will find by experience- that nothing can be long entertaining but what is, -in some measure, beneficial, because nothing else will bear a calm and sedate review. You may be fancied for awhile upon the account of good nature, the inseparable attendant upon a flush of sanguine health and a fulness of youthful spirits; but you will find, in process of time, that, among the wise and good, useless good nature is ,the object of pity, ill-nature of hatred but Nature, beautified and improved by an assemblage of moral .and intellectual endowments, is the only object of a solid and lasting esteem. SEED.

'The End of Great Soldiers. Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy heights of his ambition, and with his temple bound with chaplets dipped in the blood of countless nations, looked down upon a conquered world and wept that there was not another world for him to conquer, set a city on fire, and died in a scene of debauch. Hannibal—after having, to the astonishment and consternation of Rome, passed the Alps after hav- ing put to flight the armies af this mistress of the world," and stripped three bushels of golden rings from the fingers of her slaughtered knights, and made her very foundations quake-fled from this country, hated by those who had exultingly united his name to that of their god, and called him Hanni Baal-and died at last by poison, administered by his own hands, unlamented and unwept, in a foreign 'land. Cæsar-after having conquered eight hundred cities, and dyed his garments in the blood of one million of his foe-after having pursued to death the only rival he had on earth—was miserably as- sassinated by those he considered as his nearest friends, and in that very place the attainment of which had been his greatest ambition. Bonaparte—whose mandate kings and popes obeyed, after having filled the earth with the terror of his name; after having deluged Europe with tears and blood, and clothed the worid in sackcloth —closed his days in lonely banishment, almost literally exiled from the world, yet where he could sometimes see his country's banner waving over the deep; but which would not, or could not, brine him aid I Thus those four men who, from the peculiai situation of their portraits, seemed to stand as the representives of all those whom the world call greal -those four, who each in turn made the earth tremble to the very centre by their simple tread- severally died, one by intoxication, or as some sup pose, by poison mingled in his wine one a suicide one assassinated by his friends and one a lonel3 exile.

SOME OLD RECORDS OF CARDIGANSHIRE. [Deposition of Agnes daughter of Rhys of Bettws Bledrws, made at Lampeter pont Stephen an the xvii day of June in the xxi year of Elizabeth before Thomas Griffith.] Agnest verch Rbys of Bettws Bledrws in the county of Cardigan being examined touching the abduction of the said Agnest, the xxth daye of May last, by one Dafydd ap John ap Howell Dio of the parish of Llangybi in the county aforesaid saith, that, on the said xxtn day of May this examinant being at the house of her Unckle Owen dafydd ap Howell wenewinge of corne and as caring a burthen of come into a lofte in the house of the said Owen where the said Owen and one Rhys ap Ieuan Lloid with diverse others in their company came to this examinant and veary ernestly intreted her to take to husband one David ap John ap Howell Dio, to whome shee answered she would not without the consent of her mother and sisters and uppon her denyall the said Owen thretned to compell her to goe unto him against her will and keapte her there from iii of the clocke in the afternowne untill allmost midnyght, some tymes using persuacions by fayre meanes and som tymes thretning her if she would not consent to goe with the said David ap John, and so at lengeth this examinant's mother when the said Agnes ran out of the said Owen his house, cam to the said Owen and besought him that he wold not urge her doughter to goe with the said Dafydd against her will, whereuppon the said Owen and one Ieuan ap Eynon and Dafydd ap Owen sonne to the said Owen prively conferred together and shortly after their conferrence the said Ieuan ap Eynon and Dafydd ap Owen brought thither a horse and so the said Ieuan ap Eynon went on the horse his backe, and the said Owen willed her the said Agnest to ryde behind the said Ieuan ap Eynon, which she refused to do, and theruppon the said David ap Owen and Thomas ap Owen another of the sonnes of the said Owen took hould uppon this examinant and against her will would have lyfted her up uppon the horse and tbereuppon this examinant weping and crying and her mother with her uppon their knees humbly besought the said Owen not to abuse the said Agnest notwithstanding the said David ap Owen and Thomas ap Owen heved her up uppon the horse behind the said Ieuan ap Eynon which Ieuan brought her to his owne house the wief of the said Ieuan ap Eynon hearing this exaiat crye, cam unto theym and said to this exaiat Hould chy peace cosen, whereuppon they went from the bedd and afterwarde they brought her violently towarde the house of the said D. ap John his father and as they weare comyngjtowardes the said house this exaiat cryed and then the saed Ieuan ap Eynon tooke her aperne and turned the same about her necke therewith ledde her unto the doore of the said house where the said John David ap Howell Dio came and resysted theyra and said they should not bryng her to his house against her will, being then at the breake of day after that as the said Agnest was brought to- wards her mother's house the Sheref of the Shire mett theym whome when the said Owen Dafydd ap Howell saw he fledd away and the said David ap John with him and then the said Sheref asked the company Is this the mayde that was taken away against her will, and chardged John David ap Howell Dio and leuan ap John to bring her unto hym upon Sonday then next following and when the Sherif departed ffrom theym the said Owen Dafydd ap Howell came againe to theym and brought her home to his owne house and there keapt her ii. daies and ii. nyghtes in a close chambre where nobody could speake with her and afterwarde brought her to Carmarthenshire and there kept her in the house of Rhys ap Howell ap Jenkin for the space of tenne daies and sayth further that for the space tliat she was kepte at the said Owen his house her mother, sister one Agnes verch Ierwerth, Morgan ap Ierwerth ap Moigan, Malgaret Rhys, Mawd verch Ieuan Morgan and Lewis ap John repayred to the said Owen's house to speake with this examynat and could not be suffered by the said Owen to speke with her. THOMAS GRIFFITH.

The most nutritious. EPPS'S COCOA Grateful and comforting EPPS'S COCOA For breakfast and supper. EPPS'S COCOA WELSH GAZETTE PRINTERIES FOR ARTISTIC AND COMMERCIAL ØI"- PRINTING. Business Notices. c ARDIGANISHIRE CARRIAGE ^yyrORKS J. G. WILLIAMS, PRACTICAL CARRIAGE BUILDER, CHALYBEATE gTREET, (Near Railway Station,) ABERYSTWYTH. NEW CARRIAGES of own Manufacture on hand, of Best Material aud Finest work- manship throughout. Rubber Tyres fitted to all Vehicles if required. J. G. WILLIAMS invites inspection of works, which is the largest and best equipped in the county. PRIVATE ADDRESS-13, BAKER STREET DAVID HOWELL, GENERAL DRAPERY ESTABLISHMENT 33 "35, GREAT DAKKGATE ST" AND 2 MAllKET STREET, ABERYSTWYTH! WELSH TjUANXELS AND SHAWLS, CARPETS AXD LINOLEUMS. W. R. JONES WATCHMAKER JEWELLER, &C„ 32, Great Darkgate Street, ABERYSTWYTH A large Assortment of JEWELLERY, in Gold, Silver, and Pebbles, Suitable for Presents, &c., also LADIES' AND GENTS' GOLD "AND SILVER WATCHES. SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES TO SUIT ALL SIGHTS. 4 A Good Assortment of WEDDING, KEEPER, and GEM RINGS. SPLENDID BARGAINS. REES JONES IF- MFORIum, TREGARONI i Now offers for Sale at Low Clearance Prices a fine lot of MEN'S, YOUTH'S, AND BOYS' OVERCOATS. FURNITURE. FURNITURE. FURNITURE. J. lL. EVANS, COMPLETE HOUSE iFURNISHER CABINET MAKER & UPHOLSTEKERJ ^J_REAT jQ^ARKGATE ^TREE k A BERYS-FWYTH. FURNITUREI FURNITURE,: FURNITURE! DAVID WATKINS, WORKSHOP: SEA VIEW PLACE. PRIVATE ADDRESS CUSTOM-HOUSE STREET. PAINTER, PLUMBER, PAPERHANGER, GLAZIER AND HOUSE DECORATOR. CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF PAPER- HANGINGS ALWAYS IN STOCK. SHEET LEAD PIPES, CISTERNS, &c., &c. HOLLIER'S COMMERCE HOUSE, B RIDGE STREET & Q {)EE S TREE1 FOR FANCY GOODS AND CYCLING ACCESSORIES Business Notices. ESTABLISHED 1835. D. R. JONES" AND SON, LADIES', GEXTLE5IE.VS & CHILDREN'S^ BOOT SHOE MAKER, 7, BRIDGE STREET, ABERYSTWYTB A large assortment of Children's Boots and Shoes always in Stock. Sand Boots in Great Variety. Repairs neatly and promptly executed. AGENT FOB HEECCLES NOBILITY AND THE HOLDFAST BRAND. Lampeter Hand-sewn Boots always in Stock. J. WALTER EVANS, 0 GREAT DARKGATE STREET ABERYSTWYTH. Is now showing a Splendid Selection of NEW GOQDS In all Departments. BOYS' & MEN'S SUITS IN A GREAT VARIETY. NEW DRESSES, FURNISHING GOODS, &c. HAIRDRESSING. BUY YOUR ORNAMENTAL HAIR DIRECT FROM THE MAKER. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TRESSES OF HAIR, CYCLIST FRINGES, WIGS, SCALPS, PARTINGS, FRONTS, HAIR DYES, RESTORERS, and all kinds of TOILET REQUISITES. LADIES' HAIR COMBIKGS TASTEFULLY MADE UP. A. JOINSON, 14, pIER STREET. ABERYSTWYTH RICHARD MORGAN GENERAL GROCER, CORN & FLOUR MERCHANT, GREAT ARKGATE STREET, A BERYSTWYTH. COUGH MIXTURE FOR WINTER COUGH AND BRONCHITIS TRY ROBERT ELLIS'S COUGH MIXTURE AND CHEST TONIC. 10¥I. and 2s. 3d. per bottle, post free- WM. RICHARDS, GROCER AND PROVISION MERCHANT Begs to Inform the public that he HAS REMOVED To more Commodious Premises, lately carried on as the Gwalia Temperance Hotel, J. GWILYM EVANS. Family Grocer & Provision Merchant, THE STORES, HIGH STREET AND STATION ROAD, TOWYX. NOTED HOUSE FOR TEA. BEST IN PURITY AND FLAVOUR. I. AND G. LLOYD, COACHBUILDERS, ALFRED PLACE, ABERYSTWYTH. Carriages made to order on the shortest notice. Experienced Men kept for all Branches CARRIAGES FOR SALE. HARFORD SQUARE, LAMPETER. WALTER DAVIES Is now making a Grand Display of the LATEST NOVELTIES Mantles, Capes, Jackets, Mackintosh Cloaks, Furs, Costumes, etc., PLAIN and FANCY DRESS FABRICS. P S. Goods not in Stock procured at Shortest Notice by Parcels arriving daily from London and other centre. JACK EDWARDS, BOOKSELLER, Great Darkgate Street, ABERYSTWYTH TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, 13, P IER STREET, ABERYSTWYTH DAVID JAMES. Suitings, Coatings, Trouserings, &c., in the best fashion and at reasonable prices. Cricketing and Boating Suits made to order on the Shortest Notice. W. H. TRUSCOTT, WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER, LAPIDARY AND OPTICIAN, 3 7 TERRACE ROAD, (OPPOSITE THE W J- POST OFFICE). A large assortment of Wedding, Diamond and Gem Rings. Business Notices. TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHEST. OLD DR. MIRACULOUS COUGH SYRUP Has been proved by thousands to be a Certain, Safe, and Swift Cure for Coughs, Chronic Bronchitis, Irritation of the Throat, and every form of Winter Catarrh. COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF HEALING AND BALSAMIC HERBS. Thousands of Bottles sold every year. ASK YOUR CHEMIST FOR A BOTTLE. PRICE 1/1 and 2/9, (by post 3d. extra) SOLE PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTURER, ISAAC T. LLOYD, M.P.S.* CHEMIST, 267, Knw's ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON. To be obtained Wholesale and Retail in North Wales from the "DOYEY PHARMACY," ABERDOVEY1 A WORD IN SEASON. TRY MORGANS Pectoral Linseed Balsam Certain Cure for Coughs, Colds, Influenza, and all affections of the Chest, Throat, and Lungs. ——— HAS CURED OTHERS. "ILL CURE YOU. 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NOTICE.—This column is devoted to better thoughts for quiet moments. Can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light. ROGERS.

The Ministry of Nature. Amid the din and strife of earth, it is delight- fully refreshing to fall back into the deeper calm of Nature. This sacred stillness is almost essential to our intellectual and spiritual repose. Nor is our higher nature susceptible of being touched and purified by tbe ever-falling fire of Heaven but in proportion as we are separated from the outer and lower world of sense. It is in our moments of peaceful seclusion that we can concentrate and give force to our thoughts, while in our profounder musings we become conscious of a purer and a mightier inspiration R. FERGUSSON, LL.D.

Room at the Top. I Never you mind the crowd lad, Or fancy your life won't tell; The work is the work for a' that To him that doeth it well. Fancy the world a hill, lad, Look where the millions stop; You'll find the crowd at the base lad- There's always room at the top. Courage and faith and patience, There's space in the old world yet; The better the chance you stand lad, The farther along you get. Keep your eyes on the goal lad Never despair or drop Be sure that your path leads upward- There's always room at the top. ♦

Neglected Good. "When we have done the thing we sought to do, '-we looked with couched eyes backward, and see with tears the thing we have missed—the near duty left undone, the waiting grief uncheered, the humble love passed by. We did not mean to slight it; but be were too intent upon our own ends, and dow we think that even if we had paused to see, and stayed to help, we should have lost but little time, and won celestial treasure. Make up your mind in your best moments, and keep on remembering that you made it up. To love the highest and to see the highest are one and the same thing, and the indispensable first step to loving is to act, as far as we see, as if we saw. MATHEW BROWNE.

Cenwch Glodydd Lledr Cymru. THE DOLYBONT ROLLER LEATHER FACTORY. BY "PHILIP SYDNEY." Little does the scorcher" and record breaker" think as he makes his bicycle fly over the road between Llanfihangel and Boith that hard by is situated as genuine a Cardiland industry as can be desired. Yet so it is, and one has but to turn off the high road, down a steep lane to the right, to find one- self in the old world, yet up to date tannery, better known as the Welsh Roller Leather Factory. Here, in the year 1840, Mr. Abraham James, father of the present proprietor, Mr. A. J. W. James, began the llusiness, which ranks now as one of the most important in the neighbourhood. What is made here ? is the natural question of the visitor who knows nothing, and wants to be enlightened. The answer to that is, here raw skins or pelts are prepared for covering the rollers of the great cotton looms away in Lancashire and Yorkshire. As visitors are always welcomed by the courteous proprietor, no less than by Mrs. James who takes both a personal interest and legitimate pride in the well equipped premises and excellent output, we will go round and see what is being done. First of all the raw pelt is received, and here be it noted, the experienced eye can detect the frequent carelessness of the butcher in flaying the sheep, carelessness which results in damage to the skin, and consequent loss to the tanner. After the pelts are sorted, they are then put into lime pits, where they remain from nine to fourteen days as required. Next comes the fleshing or cleaning, a necessary and important factor, followed by that of bran drenching. Then, and not till then is the pelt ready for tanning which is here done by what is known as the cold liquor process. The pelt is placed in a revolving cask, as it were, instead of as formerly being kept stationary, for a very much longer period in the pit. 11 Then come the hydraulic squeezing, by which the grease is extracted with a pressure of 160 to 180 tons, the drying, the shaving, sorting, cutting, dying and packing step by step, the pelt is passed on, always progressing in the factory, never going over the same ground twice, until at last it is ready for delivery. At Dolybont the pelts are received from the dis- trict, ready for all this wonderful process of dressing them, until it is fit to be fixed on the revolving wheels of the cotton spinning machines, some hundreds of miles away from this quiet spot, round which the birds sing in concert, and the lilacs flower in profusion. This factory can take in 20,000 pelts at one time -yes, reader, 20,000 skins, which have clothed as many white-faced Welsh sheep which, by the fine- ness of the grain are of far greater utility than the skins of any other breed of sheep. Not only are the pelts here prepared for roller leather, though this is the most important branch of the industry, but they are made ready for the book-binder in London, the shoemaker at Leicester, and the hatter at Denton. Before me are thirty-six samples of the dyed leather in as many permanent shades, all obtained from aniline dye mixed on the premises. So charming are these shades-blue, black, crim- son, green, yellow, brown-that I only wish it were within my means to bind up as many of my volumes as there are different shades with which to clothe them. No visitor can look on at some of the processes here mentioned without being at once struck with the cleverness of the different operators, their deft- ness of hand, and their certainty of sight. Look at this skin being shaved. The machine does it, quite true, reader, but if you or I took our place at the machine we should assuredly spoil our skin, and that of the sheep. It is, after all, the hand and the foot which guide the machine without the worker the work would be of little use Or look at this man who is polishing the skin, giving it the finest of gloss. Half a century ago his grandfather did it by laborious hand process, using a glass polisher, some of which are still kept as curiosities. To-day the grandson accomplishes the same work in far quicker time and certainly with better results. < Watch the unerring hand of this man as he cuts the pelt, no false stroke scissors in hand he still uses the method devised by Mr. James the founder of the work, none better having been discovered to supersede it. By degrees old methods have, however, to give place to newer and better ones. Take the case of the all-important motive power. What has happened? First there was naturally the water wheel. This was used until it became too powerless to give the higher speed necessary to the larger demands upon it. Then came the steam engine, capable one would think of doing "every thing for everybody"—as the scholar recently phrased it in an examination essay on steam—but see :— Finding coal dear, Mr. James laid down a valuable petroleum engine which silently and untended goes on its way in its own room. These three methods alone, all still being used as occasion demands-are a sample of what is taking place on all sides in this old industry. 0 If machinery however is here, so too must the workers be; and here we see how necessary it is for the man on the soil to master the work near at hand. It speaks well for Mr. and Mrs. James that they have somewhat solved the difficulty of keeping the country man on the country side. One hand alone is well on his way to 40 years of constant service here, others are growing apace, sons follow fathers. Awhile back Englishmen actually came here to work from places so far off as Lancashire and Yorkshire, taking the places of Welshmen who had, as it were, turned their backs on a native industry. But alas for some of these foreign workers, earning often times as much as per week, they could not keep themselves sob. In self defence the proprietor then for this reason had to Jay down the most modern of machinery, and endeavour by all legitimate means to win the native and to keep him when won. That success follows his efforts, one walk round the factory will show. Fathers, too, not connected with the works find it desirable to place their sons as apprentices, to learn the mistery -as the old world phrase was —and so to become masters of the craft. Let me in conclusion try to sum up some facts [ gleaned in a visit, which for reasons other than are here written must; always remain a pleasure in memory. The work is confined exclusively to Welsh trade, and Welsh pelts, in a phrase Lledr Cymreig 0 Gymru." J ° i ———— The Cambrian Railway Co. give all facilities at the Llanfihangel Station for the purposes of the trade and quote favourable rates to all places dealt < with, even though they be so far apart as Lancashire and Russia, Cheshire and-India. I Here a pelt can be turned out in finished manner if necessary, by quickest method in one week, but as any one who knows can tell, it is desirable not to take this course, having an eye to the best result. Everything so far as possible is done in tanning itself in the old fashioned and time tried way. There is a working capacity for six to ten thou- sands pelts weekly and all this within a few yards of the quiet Queen's highway, along which the tourist tramps and the bicyclist rides, little heeding perchance that there nestles so close at hand, one of those Cardiland industries of which the country side is proud and which, too, under the sway of an intelligent and painstaking management is doing not a little to solve the vexed question as to how we shall keep the worker to the soil, and prevent the further overcrowding of our already congested centres of population, where so often when too late the country man and his wife find out that their condition is alas far, far worse than it was on their native heath.

TALIESIN. THE WAR.—The news of the disaster to Bethune's Horse in Natal created much interest and speculation here as Mr. J. W. Jenkins, of Cerrigcyranau, is known to be among Bethune's Mounted Infantry. From further particulars to hand we now gladly learn that no misfortune happened to the A. Division in which Mr. Jenkins is engaged. But as he must have seen stirring 11 9 times further particulars of the disaster will be read with interest :-Bethune's column consisted of five squadrons of mounted infantry, with two Hotchkiss and two Maxim guns, and on the approach of the force towards Vryheid a few Boers in the district fled thither. The Colonel had received apparently reliable information from European and native runners to the effect that there were scarcely any Boers in Vryheid or district, and he accordingly decided to march through the New Republic to rejoin General Buller's main body at Newcastle, sending his commissariat via Dundee. The H Squadron formed the van- guard, and was in charge of a reliable guide, while on either flank were numerous scouts. The squadron pushed on rapidly in their eagerness to z, reach Vryheid before darkness set in, and very soon they were a considerable distance ahead of the remainder of the column. Just after dusk the troopers fell into a well-conceived ambush under a kopje. The Boers immediately appeared in such overwhelming force that it is a mystery where they came from. The only conclusion arrived at as to their identity is that they were a band of refugees from Dundee fleeing before GeneAl Buller's advance, and reinforced by the De Jagei$Drift commando, under General Lucas Meyer. Captain Goff, 6th Dragoon Guards, who was in command of the squadron, immediately dismounted his men, but with the first few volleys almost all the horses were shot down, the Boers using explosive bullets. The enemy then sur- rounded the squadron and directed a heavy fire from Maxims on the ambushed men. The troopers suffered severely, being entirely exposed to the enemy's fire. The survivors soon rallied from their surprise, and, guided by the blase of the enemy's guns, returned volley for volley. At last, however, the gallant troopers' ammunition became exhausted but even then they refused to yield. The Boers now fired the grass to conceal their movements from the main British force. Bethune's column at the first sound of firing hurried up to the scene of the disaster, and at once deployed for attack. By this time darkness had fallen, and Colonel Bethune was afraid to open fire at close quarters for fear of injuring British as well as Boer. The D. Squadron, however, dashed for- ward, and gallantly rescued the troopers who still survived. The only course now open to Colonel Bethune was to retire on Nqutu, which was reached at five o'clock on Monday morning, after the column bad been in the saddle nineteen hours and covered sixty miles. The total British loss, in- cluding officers and men, amounted to sixty-eight.

PENCADER. TRAP ACCIDENT.—A serious accident happened to Mr. Jenkins, farmer, Castelldu, Pencader, while returning home in his trap from Carmarthen market on Saturday evening last. He was accom- panied by his wife and also by his aunt, Mrs. Jones, Aber-wili.1 Shortly before reaching Bronwydd Arms, the horse shied, with the result that the trap was upset, and the two ladies violently thrown out. When picked up they were unconscious, and were removed to Henallt Cottages where, their in- juries were attended to by Dr. Price, Carmarthen. Mr. Jenkins was not seriously hurt. We under- stand that both ladies are now progresing favourably.