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RECOVERY OF A LOST RING. 

 (Commnnicated by the Rev. Canow SALTREN ROGERS, M.A.) 



In the summer of one of the years from about 1866 to 

 1869, I was sailing with some friends in Falmouth Harbour. 

 We landed and dined on the beach, on the right as you look 

 towards Place House, opposite to St. Mawes, the tide being low. 

 Two of our ladies remained for half an hour on shore, to sketch, 

 and, meanwhile, we cruised in St. Mawes creek. I was steering 

 with my right hand, and, with my left, held the painter of the 

 punt which was to fetch the ladies from the shore. The wind 

 was light and puffy, and as the punt kept running into our stern, 

 I let the painter slip through my left hand, to give her more 

 scope. After the ladies had returned to the yacht, I missed, 

 from my left little finger, a diamond ring. I was not sure that 

 I had brought it with me, but my friend's wife assured me she 

 had observed it glistening while we were dining. We searched 

 carefully for it, on board the yacht, and, not finding it, I gave it 

 up, with a good grace, for lost ; — concluding that it had been 

 drawn off the wet finger, as the painter slipped through my hand. 

 As far as I can remember, we could not have been less than one 

 or two hundred feet from the shore, when the ring was thus lost 

 overboard. 



About the month of February, 1 882, two little boys, Peter 

 Edgar, aged about 6, and Richard Vincent, aged about 7 years, 

 were playing on the beach, sailing toy boats. The tide, which 

 was within an hour, or so, of its full height, had left a little pool, 

 just where the rocks begin to show through the sand, below the left 

 or inner corner of the wood, at the point where the South East 

 shore of St. Mawes creek bends in towards Place. It was within 

 about 10 paces of the highest tide mark, within 3 feet perpendic- 

 ular of the highest level. In the pool was a piece of wood with 

 some bright green seaweed attached to it ; Peter, on taking the 

 wood out of the water, saw a ring on the sand at the bottom of 

 the shallow pool. 



