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CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA. 



1868. 



January 1. The Western Morning News publishes an Article entitled : 

 " Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Seven in the West of England." 



January 1. The Cornish Telegraph publishes an " Abstract of the 

 Weather at Penzance and its neighbourhood, for the year 1867." 



January 1, and subsequently, passim. Cornish Telegraph publishes, in 

 continuation from the preceding year, a Series of Articles entitled " An 

 Excursion," from " Old Celt." It includes notices of Lamorna Cove ; The 

 Dwelling of Chenance ; Carn Bosava ; Trewoof and the Old Mansion of 

 the Lovells ; The Crusaders, West- Country Folk going to the Holy Wars ; 

 Legends of the Giants of Portreath, St. Ann's, and Towednack; The 

 building of Choon ; The Fougou Hole and Celtic Monuments of BoUeit ; 

 Holed Stones ; The Dawns Mayne and Garrac Zans; &c., &c., &c. 



January 2. Annual Conversazione of the Plymouth Institution. 



January 2. The Cormoall Gazette publishes a letter from Eev. Dr. 

 Bannister, on "Tacitus the historian, and the Antiquity of Truro"; the 

 object of the letter being to identify Truro with the " Trutulensem " of 

 Tacitus : Agric. Vit., cap. 38. 



January 4. About five o'clock, a.m., shocks of earthquake felt in the 

 valley of the Parret and other parts of western Somersetshire. 



January 9. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from Eev. Dr. Bannister, 

 on " The Archbishopric of Cornwall." It asserts that Cornwall had an 

 archbishopric prior to the founding of the metropolitan see of Canterbury. 



January 15 and 30, and February 18 ; March 24 ; April 27. Western 

 Morning News publishes, in continuation from the preceding year, Articles 

 on " The Cornish Fisheries." 



January 23. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter signed "E. Pentreath," 

 on " Tacitus ; The Antiquity of Truro ; and The Cornish Glossary." 



January 23. West^Briton publishes, under the title " Cornubiana," a 

 notice, signed " Beta," of "A Cornish Philosopher" — a retired student and 

 self-taught philosopher living some thirty years since in the parish of St. 

 Keverue, and author of a pamphlet on "Light the Essence of Matter." 



