PKECIOUS METALS IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND. 105 



" Mr. Eosewarn. . . .has now by him one piece of fine gold 

 .... weighs to the value of twenty-seven shillings, another 

 seventeen shillings. . . .has seen two bits from Probus which 

 weighed about fifteen shillings intermixed with quartz. I have 

 one which weighs half a guinea. . . .but the largest piece found 

 in Cornwall which has reached my notice is that in the possession 

 of Wm. Lemon, Esq., of Carclew, brought him in the latter end 

 of September, 1753, which weighs fifteen penny-weights and 

 sixteen grains. It appears to have come from a vein half an 

 inch wide at a medium. On each side it has a light brown fatty 

 earth which is the only impurity."" From the rough sketch given 

 by Dr. Borlase I should judge that this is the specimen referred to 

 by Mr. Michell in the year 1828. "A j)iece of gold in a matrix 

 of (j^uartz fi'om Carnon Vale (now in the Eoyal Institution of 

 Cornwall), weighs 1 1 dwts. 6 grains.^ If so this is specimen 

 No. 1025 of the old Truro collection. The difference of weight 

 may be readily accounted for as a result of the former unfortunate 

 practice of breaking away the adhering stony gangue as far as 

 possible. 



In the Manuscript Additions to Borlase' s Natural History 

 we find the following : 



" The present Mr. Glynne, of Glynne, has shewn me a large 

 gold seal ring made of gold hoppes found in the river under his 

 house. I have also two small pieces, found in a stream work 

 near the church of Cordynham, not far from Bodmin.^ 



"The stream tin obtained at Treloy (St. Columb Minor), 

 was frequently mixed with grains of gold mostly about the size 

 of wheat, but sometimes as large as peas."^'^ 



Ivlaproth writing in 1787, says " The stream tin from 

 Pensagilgas is remarkable on account of the native gold which 

 now and then is met with in it, and found, though very rare, in 

 pieces of the value of two or three pounds sterling.'^ 



7. Ibid, figured iu plate xxi, fig. xxv. 



8. Man. of Miu., Truro, p. 2. 



9. See Jour. R.I.C., I Supp. 



10. Nicholls, quoted by Heuwood, Pres. Add., Journal R.I.C., IV, p. 219. 



11. Quoted by Henwood, Ibid., p. 237. 



