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the President, seconded by Dr. Barham, the heartiest of thanks 

 were accorded to the generous host and hostess. 



The house contains the library and portrait of Doctor Daniel 

 Lombard, bequeathed by that learned but simple and eccentric 

 gentleman {ph. 1746) to his successors in the Eectory. In the 

 Probate Registry Office at Bodmin is a small book containing a 

 list of the books in this library. 



Delabole Quarries were next visited ; Mr. Hockaday, the man- 

 ager, conducting his numerous visitors over the extensive works, 

 and exhibiting the modes of quarrying and raising these sedi- 

 mentary rocks — among the earliest in geological age= — and of 

 adapting them to modern requirements. In raising the Cjuarried 

 slate, the use of guide chains, stretching from "poppet heads" to 

 the bottom of the pit, has lately been abandoned, and the slate is 

 now drawn in trucks by steam-engines, up inclined planes to 

 the toj) of the rubbish heaps, where the process of manufacture is 

 conducted. 



From Delabole the party proceeded to what may be deemed 

 the chief object of the excursion, Tintagel, where the vicar of the 

 parish, the Reverend Prebendary Kinsman, Constable of the 

 Castle, assumed the office of guide over the remains and site of 

 the so-called Arthur's Castle and its surroundings, — its courts, its 

 ruined chambers and walls, its chapel (with remains of stone 

 altar ^ and Norman ornamental moulding, and chancel-arch indi- 

 cations), its rock-cut graves outside the chapel, curious groups of 

 rock, &c., &c. ; while the extensive coast and inland scenery, in 

 all the glory of magnificently fine weather, was in itself a perpet- 

 ual yet unclojdng feast. 



The parish church was also visited. It was in course of 

 restoration, and has since been l^e-opened. It contains several 

 windows skilfully coloured by the vicar. Some of the windows 

 are of only one veiy narrow light, deeply splayed. The plan of 

 the building is cruciform, and formerly each transept was ap- 

 proached beneath a pointed arch, similar in height and character 

 to the arches at chancel and nave ; but in the restoration, these 

 transept arches have not been restored, and the fine quadrangular 

 group of arches no longer exists; the transepts are entered 

 through square openings. 



In the church are some ancient slabs without inscriptions, but 



* Mr. Worth was^of opinion that a large stone slab found near the 

 chapel was incorrectly assumed to have been the altar slab ; his reasons 

 bfeing that it was not found in situ, but outside the structure, and that it 

 wanted the five crosses which were almost invariably found on prse-Eeforma- 

 tion altar- slabs. 



