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from great distances, eager to purchase. The mark upon 

 the coloured specimens is the astronomical symbol for 

 Jupiter, or the chemical for tin. The white specimens 

 have no mark. Cookworthy's China-works were situated 

 at Coxside, Plymouth. After a time, he sold the patent 

 right to Mr. R. Champion, of Bristol, who established a 

 manufactory at Castle Green, in that city.* 



JOHN WOLCOT, M.D., 



usually known by the name of "Peter Pindar," was a 

 native of Dodbrooke. Hawkins speaks of "a smart little 

 mansion, with a white front, on a gentle verdant declivity, 

 extending to the water's edge at the flow of the tide;" 

 and he says that Dr. Wolcot "first drew his breath within 

 the precincts of these premises." The house now called 

 Pindar Lodge stands on the site of this "little mansion," 

 and is not, as many suppose it to be, the actual birth- 

 place of the satirical bard. In the road which passes 

 behind Pindar Lodge is a barn, which Wolcot rendered 

 conspicuous by addressing to it various sonnets, one of 

 which concludes thus — 



" Daughter of thatch, and stone, and mud," &c. 



Dr. Wolcot received a classical education at the Grammar 

 School, which was under the able direction of John Morris ; 

 and after pursuing his studies here, and finishing his 

 education at Liskeard and Bodmin, he was apprenticed 

 to his uncle, a respectable surgeon, at Fowey. This uncle 

 was employed as an apothecary by Sir William Trelawny, 

 and consequently the nephew was introduced to the notice 

 of that family, who soon formed a high opinion of his 



* Account mostly extracted from : 'Art Journal." William Cookworthy 

 was grcat-great-unclc to the present writer. 



