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and betook themselves to the various lodgings assigned them by 

 the Committee ad hoc ; some partaking the kind hosiDitality of 

 the Eeverend Mr. Kinsman, some that of the Directors of the 

 Delabole Company, whilst others were lodged at Trevena, or 

 posted at outlying stations, such as Trebarwith, Trenow, Bossiney, 

 Boscastle, &c., all bearing Avith them their President's Envoy : 



" To all, to each, a fair good-night. 

 And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light." 



The following morning, the excursionists assembled at Tre- 

 thevy, for the purpose of seeing St. Nighton's, or St. ISTectan's, 

 Kieve, which has been characterized as perhaps the most pic- 

 turesque and secluded waterfall in Engiancl. Those of the party 

 who proceeded thither from Trevena, had the opportunity as they 

 passed through Bossiney, of noticing the barrow, marked by a 

 flag-staff, whereon the writs for elections of members of parlia- 

 ment were wont to be proclaimed to the independent freemen ; 

 and we Avere informed that, in two farm-houses in the vicinity, 

 are preserved the mace and seal of the ancient borough of Tintagel ; 

 these relics of departed dignity being retained by the ex officio 

 holders of them at the time when the borough was disfranchised. 

 Of less note, but presumably of greater antiquity, another object 

 was pointed out by the Rev. W. lago near the " Rocky Valley " 

 through which the streamlet from the Kieve descends precipitously 

 seaward : it was an old quern, placed on the garden hedge of a 

 cottage near the road. 



Arrived at Trethevy,* advantage was taken of the earliest 

 meeting this day, of the excursionists en masse, to vote most 

 hearty thanks to the Eeverend Prebendary Kinsman, for his 

 courteous and most assiduous attentions to the party on the 

 previous day. They then placed themselves under the guidance 

 of Mr. Goard, the intelligent warden of the waterfall and its 

 precincts ; and highly gratified were all by the singularly beau- 



* Norden, To-pograpliical and Historical Description of Cormuall, p. 88 ; 

 Lysons, Cornwall, ccxix; C. S. Gilbert, Historical Survey of Cornwall, i, p. 

 173 ; Bond, Topographical Sketches of East and West Looe, p. 216 ; Hitcliins 

 and Drew, History of Cormvall, i, p. 174; Beauties of Engla,nd and Wales, 

 ii, 389 ; Davies Grilberfc, Parochial History of Cornicall, i, p. 193 ; Bedding, 

 niustrated Itinerary of Cormvall, p. 61 ; Pattison, Report of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall, xxxii, (1850), p. 31 ; Pedler, Reports of the Penzance 

 Natural History Society, i, p. 435 ; Allen, History of Liskeard, p. 5, PI. ii ; 

 Blight, Ancient Crosses, <&c., in the East of Cornwall, p. 130; Complete 

 Parochial History of Cornicall, i (1867), p. 205 ; Henwood, Transactions of 

 the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 8, p. 661. 



