298 ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 
historical period. It is stated in Dr. Paris’s 
“‘ Guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End,” 
that the grandfather of the incumbent of Madron 
was known to have received tithes from land 
under the cliff of Penzance; and that, in the 
memory of many persons living when that book 
was written, the cricket-players were unable to 
throw a ball across the Western Green, between 
Penzance and Newlyn, which is now not many 
feet in breadth.* Dr. Borlase likewise informs 
us, that ‘on the strand of Mount’s Bay, midway 
between the piers of St. Michael’s Mount and 
Penzance, on the 19th of January, 1757, the 
remains of a wood, which, according to tradition, 
covered a large tract of ground in Mount’s Bay, 
appeared.”+ These remains consisted of hazel 
and alder, with some forest trees, including the 
elm andthe oak. The hazel-nuts were abundant ; 
and even fragments of insects, particularly the 
elytra and mandibles of the beetle tribe, still dis- 
playing the most beautiful, shinimg colours, but 
crumbling into dust on exposure to the air, were 
found amid the vegetable mass.{ The exact time 
* Guide to Mount’s Bay; pp. 15, 16. (2nd Ed.) 
+ Atheneum, No. 761, (May 28th, 1842,) p. 484. 
{ De la Beche’s Report on the Geology of Cornwall, 
Devon, and West Somerset ; Chap xiii. pp. 417, 418. 
