CHAPTER XVI 



WEDGWOOD'S JOURNEY INTO CORNWALL 



THE introduction of the manufacture of china ware into 

 Staffordshire was mainly due to the exertions of Josiah 

 Wedgwood, in taking means for throwing open the use 

 of the raw materials found in Devonshire and Corn- 

 wall to manufacturers of pottery in every part of the 

 kingdom. 



In order to make personal inquiries as to the places 

 where growan stone or growan clay was found in 

 Devonshire and Cornwall, Wedgwood resolved in 17*75 

 to make a journey into the south-western counties of 

 England. He was accompanied by Mr. Turner, one of 

 the earthenware manufacturers of Lane End ; as well as 

 by Mr. T. Griffiths, who was to be their agent, should 

 it be found necessary to leave him behind them. 



" As the country was new to me," says Wedgwood 

 in his Commonplace Book, " I took a few short minutes, 

 in the chaise, of the various appearances of the country 

 we passed through, which afforded a little amusement 

 at the time, and may serve perhaps as an agreeable 



