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and hope, pretty safe, as existing in consecrated ground ; but I 

 fear that unless more is being done to preserve them than is 

 being done at present, the two very ancieat Churches of Perran- 

 zabuloe and Gwithian may be destroyed in time. This I would 

 throw out as a practical suggestion. The theory I advance is 

 simply this, that in Cornwall we have some of the most ancient 

 Christian remains (as well as secular curiosities) now existing in 

 England. 



