WEST DEVONSHIRE. 3c| 



the Diftri<Ct, much goes to the fupply of* 

 the dock yards and fhips of war. We 

 muft not, however, omit to remark, at the 

 fame time, that the population of the Dif- 

 tridt itfelf is much below par. The inha- 

 bitants, which it at prefent contains, are 

 chiefly employed in raifing the produd;ions 

 of which we have here fpoken. 



3. The produds of the substrata 

 have been enumerated; as stones, 



SLATES, TIN, LEAD, SILVER, COPPER. 



Yet, notwithftanding the natural treafures 

 with which the Diftridt has abounded*, 

 and which has been drawn from its 

 bowels J during a fucceffion of ages, we do 

 not find it either richer or happier, than 

 other Diftrids of the Ifland, to which 

 Nature has been lefs bountiful of fubter- 

 D 4 ranean 



* Formerly, this Difl:ri(£l was the principal fcene of 

 MINING : but, of later years, little had been done; until 

 very lately ; when the advanced price of tin induced the 

 adventurous to re-open fome of the old mines, and to try 

 their luck in new ones : to the annoyance of the country j 

 and with little profit to themfelves. 



The Mines, which are worked at prefent, are chiefly 

 in the Wefterti parts of Cornwall. 



