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make out the reading. It begins with a well-formed Cross, scarcely noticeable 

 in the stone itself, but very plain in the early stages of the rubbing, though 

 afterwards spoiled by the moving of the paper. The doorway is a plain but 

 elegantly shaped Early-English Lancet, (not round-headed, as it is incor- 

 rectly represented in the engraving in Dr. Borlase's Essay on the Isles of 

 Scilly). East of this doorway is a lofty arch, also plain Early-English ; of 

 two orders, chamfered, without capital or impost. This arch is represented 

 by Dr. Borlase as belonging to a south transept which had disappeared. In 

 his day, earth and rubbish had accumulated to a considerable height in and 

 around the chm-ch. This has been removed by Mr. Augustus Smith from 

 the interior and from the south side, and no mark or trace of a south 

 transept is said to have been discovered. Dr. Borlase also marks a north 

 transept.' The bases of a north arch are noticeable, but this side has never 

 been examined ; indeed, earth and rubbish have accumulated here to about 

 the height of the wall, and it is overgrown with plants and shrubs. Several 

 chamfered stones of arches similar to those of the two perfect arches are 

 lying about. Excepting these, there is nothing about the building itself to 

 determine the date. The arch stones do not belong to the stone of the 

 isles ; the others in the building are the common granite. The stones in 

 the arches are in no case bonded into the wall. — The inscribed stone is, if I 

 remember aright, a lime-stone ; and it appears to have been scrawled, ap- 

 parently to render it less slippery to persons coming through the door. The 

 doorway has part of a weather-moulding left over it. — While writing, I would 

 mention another me7i scrijfa discovered by me, at Whitestile, in Clwennap. 

 Only one or two letters are decipherable. Built up in the stone hedge ad- 

 joining is half of the stone in which it was set, exhibiting a section of the 

 socket. 



The Chairman having called attention to some specimen pages 

 of Dr. Bannister's " G-lossary of Cornish Names," and to the 

 prospectus of a new work by a " praiseworthy and trustworthy 

 antiquary," Mr. Bottrill, the " Old Celt," upon the " Folk Lore of 

 Cornwall," — made some remarks upon the meteorology of the 

 past summer, incidentally observing that Mr. Glaisher and Mr. 

 Duncan, of the Royal Observatory, during their recent visits to 

 Cornwall, had expressed their satisfaction with the arrangements 

 for observation at the Institution. A full notice of the meteor- 

 ology of the late summer would be given in the Annual Report of 

 the Institution at the end of the year, but in the meantime he 

 thought it would be interesting to notice one or two particulars 

 respecting the unusual heat that occurred, and to contrast it with 

 what was experienced at the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich, an 

 account of which had been furnished by Mr. Glaisher. The sum- 

 mer, as they were aware, was very remarkable for its fineness, and 

 it was nearly unique, owing to its high temperature. Ac- 

 cording to the account kept at the Royal Observatory, and 

 furnished by Mr. Glaisher, the heat reached its highest extreme on 

 the 22ncl of July, the thermometer having registered on that day 

 96-6, a temperature v/hich exceeded anything that had ever before 

 been recorded during the 98 years over which the Greenwich 



