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Agnes, in 1678, and died at Pol Gorran, Gorran, in 1742. His 

 Notes, illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Cornivall, were 

 commenced in 1702, and continued to 1742. 



Mr. Carew observes * that " copper is found in sundrie places, 

 but with what gain to the searchers, I haue not been curious to 

 enquire, nor they hastie to reueale. For at one Mine (of Avhich 

 I took view) the Owre Avas shipped to be refined in Wales, either 

 to saue cost in the fewell, or to conceale the profit." 



Mr. Hals remarks t that " the waste land [of Blanchland, in 

 Kea] is not only abounding in tin and tin mines, but for about 

 twenty years past hath yielded its owner about twenty thousand 

 pounds out of its copper mines, though the waste or down lands 

 in which it is found, is in many places scarce worth eighteen 

 pence per acre." 



Mr. Tonkin states % that " within these sixty years. Copper has 

 turned to very gTeat account in this county ; and there have been 

 very great discoveries made therein, both in the eastern and 

 western parts of it ; which have j)roduced . . . Yellow (which is 

 the most plentiful and common of any), Green, Blue, Black, Ash- 

 colour [vitreous], and Solid ore. . . . This variety of ores, and 

 great increase of the mines, has occasioned the setting up of six 

 several companies for the buying of the ore." 



With regard to the mode and time of wasting, and the nature 

 of the ore wasted : — 



The mode of waste mentioned by Mr. Phillips — a Mineralogist 

 second to no one in his time — seems to indicate that (the ores||) 

 the scarcer and softer ingredients of the lodes had been preferred 

 to the harder and more plentiful (quartzose and felspathic) por- 

 tions for the roads ; where certainly cheapness and durability 

 must ever be chief recommendations ; a preference it is perhaps 

 hardly necessary to discuss. 



The periods of ivaste are spoken of by Mr. Phillips and Mr. 

 Smyth in terms scarcely definite enough to admit of their being 

 compared either with each other, or with the somewhat different 

 dates assigned to the waste by Dr. Borlase § and Dr. Pryce ; § 



* Survey of Cornwall, fol. 6. 



f Hals, Parochial History of Cornwall, Edited by Davies Gilbert, D.C.L., 

 P.E.S., &c., ii, p. 300. 



+ The Survey of Cornivall, Written by Eichard Carew, of Antonie, 

 Esquire ; with Notes by Thomas Tonkin, Esq. ; Edited by Francis Lord De 

 Dunstanville, p. 21. 



II Ante, p. xvii. 



§ Ibid., p. XV. 



