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Mr. Whitley suggested that Norden might have read the 

 Cornish name as English, as Carew had done in the case of 

 Catch French, which he states was named in all likelihood from 

 some forgotten but memorable action, and thus the tradition 

 might have arisen ; but the name may be read Hayle Bord, 

 Boundary Rock, as being on the boundary between Creed and 

 Cuby parishes, which McLauchlan gives, and which seems the 

 right meaning, Then why assume these rings to be for tying 

 boats to if any existed ? The reading boundary rock may give a 

 new reason for their existence. 



At a tin stream work, about half-a-mile below the spot, rock 

 was found at 15 feet below the surface of the silt, and at the Fal 

 viaduct of the CoruAvall Eailway at eight feet; there would 

 thus be 22 feet of solid rock at Hayle Boat Eock to be removed 

 before the tide could flow there, unless there had been a local 

 upheavel between Tregony and the spot in question to that 

 extent, which the section of the valley and the calculations as to 

 the silting iip at Tregony^ conclusively prove had not taken 

 place; the evidence clearly showing that the tide never in 

 historic times flowed to this rock, and that Leland was right 

 when he stated that '' Tregoney is the olde ful se mark." From 

 these facts it appears that Grrampound's claim to be the Roman 

 station on the Fal should be examined, as it appears that 

 Treo-ony was the head of the tidal river, and not Hayle Boat 

 Eock ; and the statement that the Eoman road passed through 

 Grrampound, and not Tregony, is doubtful, as down to 1675 the 

 great south road ran from St. Austell to Tregony, and from 

 thence over King Harry Ferry, and so westward along the 

 ancient trackway to Penzance. 



In the discussion which followed, Mr. Collins, F.G.S., stated 

 he ao-reed with Mr. "Whitley that there had been no recent local 

 upheavel in the Fal valley between Tregony and Hayle Boat 

 to the extent requisite to have allowed the tide to flow there, 

 and therefore as rock was met with at the depth mentioned, the 

 sea could not in historical times have flowed there, as tradition 

 stated. 



Mr. Hamilton James made some remarks as to a collection of 

 foreign moths and beetles presented to the society by the repre- 

 sentatives of the late Mr. Charles Fox, and which were placed 

 on the table. 



