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more to the bent of his scientific inclination, he pursued 

 his enquiries relative to the manufacture of porcelain, 

 and lost no opportunity of searching into, and experi- 

 menting upon the properties of the different natural 

 productions of Cornwall; and it is related of him that, 

 in his journeys into that county, he has passed many 

 nights sitting up with the managers of mines, obtaining 

 information on matters connected with mines and their 

 products. The information given him by the American 

 had never been lost sight of, and he prosecuted enquiries 

 wherever he went. After many searchings and experi- 

 ments he at length discovered the two materials, first, 

 Polwhele says, " in the burrows of a mine near Helston "; 

 another account says "in Tregonning Hill, in the parish 

 of Germs.;* next, in the parish of St. Stephens; and 

 again at Boconnoc." 



Having made this important discovery, Cookworthy 

 appears to have determined at once to carry out his 

 intention of making porcelain, and to secure the material 

 to himself. To this end he went to London, to see the 

 proprietors of the land, and to arrange for the royalty 

 of the materials, and in this he succeeded. 



Cookworthy determined to make his porcelain equal to 

 that of Sevres or Dresden, both in body, which he himself 

 mixed, and in ornamentation, for which he procured the 

 services of such artists as were available. To this end he 

 ensrasred a Mons. Saqui, from Sevres, who was a man of 

 rare talent as a painter and enameller, and to whose hands, 

 and those of Henry Bone, a native of Plymouth, who 

 was apprenticed to Cookworthy, and aftersvards became 

 very celebrated, the best painted specimens may be 

 ascribed. 



* St, Germans I 



