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up into the country, and seem in their course to 

 cross the tin loads. 



" Nearer the Lizard than the soap rock is 

 another cove called Pintrith, which affords a 

 greyish impure steatites, spotted with black. 



" The new soap rock, lately discovered, is at 

 Gew Grez, or Grez cove, in the tenement of 

 Kynas, in Mullion parish : it is about three 

 miles from Mullion town, and about a mile from 

 the old soap rock, or cove, which lies farther 

 southward. The entrance into the creek or 

 cove is very steep, craggy, and horrid : on the 

 right hand (in descending into the creek) the 

 hills are crested with naked rocks, or cairns, as 

 the Cornish people call them : the sides have 

 also many, but they are small. About half way 

 down the cove, a very small current of water 

 traverses it, in a very serpentine manner, and 

 discharges itself near the load, or principal vein 

 of the steatites. On the right hand, as you de- 

 scend the cove, it grows more craggy and much 

 narrower ; and a few yards lower, on the same 

 side, lies the main vein or load of steatites. The 

 various sorts are all blended together in spots, 

 sometimes in greater quantities in one place 

 than in another. In the white and red veined 

 steatites, pieces of a compact, hard, slightly pel- 

 lucid, sparry substance, are frequently found: 



