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sky, on the other. It is a view to be studied and remembered. 

 The next halt is for the purpose of inspecting some interesting 

 workings for felspar, which occur at the ''Glass Mine" in 

 connection with what is termed giant granite on the right 

 hand side of the road, about half-a-mile from Eoche. The 

 granitic constituents are combined in such large masses that 

 it is easy to select blocks of felspar of considerable size. This 

 felspar in former times found a good market in the Potteries, 

 but it has been of late years superseded by the felspar from 

 Norway, which is obtainable in a state of greater purity, so that 

 it is not worked at present. By this time the fine granitic mass- 

 which in Devonshire would be called Eoche Tor, but which in. 

 Cornwall is known by the simpler name of Eoche Eock, is well 

 in view. It rises suddenly from the plain very much like Yixen 

 Tor, on Dartmoor, and is just such another rugged, haK castel- 

 lated pile, though its grandeur is by no means appreciated at the 

 first glance. Arrived at the rock ten minutes and something 

 over (not railway fashion) were allowed for the " light refresh- 

 ments," which had been brought along in sundry boxes, whereon 

 the officials had been observed to keep a watchful eye. This 

 done the party were ready for the serious work of the day. 



Eoche Eock, be it observed, is a rock with a history. Some 

 very religious people — popular tradition says a hermit, but he 

 must had helpers in that work — being of an aspiring mind, built 

 a little chapel and dwelling on the very summit of the central 

 pile ; for Eoche Eock is not one but a group.. Weathered until 

 in colour its walls are indistinguishable from the rock on 

 which they are founded, and of which they are built, and nobly 

 simple in its design ; this little hermitage — it is the easiest name 

 to use — fallen into ruins though it be, looks singularly romantic 

 perched up aloft, especially when viewed from the eastward, 

 when rock and hermitage together make up a picture that even 

 Cornwall cannot beat. The chapel consists of two storeys, both 

 of which some persons contend were used for worship, but 

 certainly the upper one was ; it has a Pointed window, and a 

 well-formed piscina. The lower compartment was more likely a 

 cell. The dimensions of the chapel are about 22 ft. by 10 ft. 

 One of the Tregarrick family — John Tregarrick was M.P. for 

 Truro in 1383, — is said to have been the last inhabitant of the 

 cell. Nor is the element of weird association wanting. In the 



