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man working in the 180-fm. level east, in Botallack, about half a mile from 

 the sea, after blasting a hole in a hard rock of secondary' granite, about 

 eight inches off from a lode composed of quartz and iron, and five feet thick, 

 discovered a substance jutting up three inches above the rock he had blasted. 

 It was flexible, and, cutting it out with 'a chisel, he found it was a vegetable sub- 

 stance, about four inches in length and IJ inch in diameter; and it had the 

 smell and appearance of common ore-weed. 



March 9. Destruction of the " Tolmen" (or Maen Eock), in the parish 

 of Constantine, near Penryn. Communications on the subject in the West 

 Briton: — March 11, 18, and 25 ; Ai^ril 8, bearing signatures, " Constantine," 

 and " W," Truro ; and June 3 (coined from the Times) from Mr. W. Hosken 

 of Penryn, on whose estate the Tolmen was destroyed. Mr. W. Hosken 

 writes : "I distinctly state that I have always felt too great a pride in this 

 ancient monument to wantonly throw it down, and each member of our 

 family, to whom the estate belongs, very deeply regrets the loss of this fine 

 object of interest. Had it not been for a direct breach of duty on the part 

 of a servant, the rock would have been even now adorning the estate." 



March 18. Cornwall Gazette publishes a letter from "F. G. S.," Hel- 

 Bton, on the destruction of the Constantine Tolmen ; and letters on the 

 same subject subsequently, viz : April 1 and 15, from " Christopher Cooke," 

 of London ; and April 8 and 22, from " S. J. "Wills," of Sithney. 



March 19. Death, at Newquay, of Mr. William Michell, of Newham, 

 Truro, Eegistrar of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon. 



March 25. Cornwall Gazette records the recent discovery, in the church- 

 yard at Padstow, of remains of an ancient cross, supposed to have been fixed 

 at the time when the church was first built, and, on that supposition, more 

 than a thousand years old ; and to have been broken during the occupation 

 of Cornwall by Puritan soldiers. 



March 25. TFest ^rifovi publishes a letter from " W. Hewett," Fowey, 

 urging the necessity of measures for preservation of rock antiquities, at 

 Carn Grey, in the parish of St. Austell, and Elmau-tor, in Lanlivery. 



April 1. Mr. Thomas Gill of St. Austell, in a letter in the West Briton, 

 gives assurance that ample provision had been made for preservation of 

 Carn Grey Eock. 



April 14. Cornish Telegraph contains the following: The interesting 

 pile of rocks situated at Carne, St. Mewan, known as the Beacon, has been 

 much defaced by large portions of it being removed by the proprietors of the 

 China-Clay Works, to be used by them as " grinders." It is stated however 

 that Mr. Hawkins, through Mr. Trethewy, his steward, has stopped the 

 further destruction of the rocks. 



April 15. Cornwall Gazette and West Briton publish a letter from Mr. 

 H. Michell Whitley, on the "Preservation of Antiquities." 



April 15, West Briton records that "in consequence of Sir John 



