THE NEIGHBOtTKHOOD OF BROWN "WILLT. 



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belonged to some old chapel, possibly that attached to Trelawny 

 in 1400. 



On the western peak of Eough Tor are some good specimens 



of Eock basins. These are locally supposed to have been made 



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Fia. 4.— FONT, ROUGHTOR CHAPEL. 



by the Druids, and used by them as receptacles for the blood of 

 their sacrifices. In the popular mind the basins are wholly 

 artificial. One is tempted to smile at the credulity of eminent 

 men, like Dr. Borlase, 

 who formerly held a 

 similar opinion ; one 

 is disposed to account 

 for these basins en- 

 tirely on natural 

 grounds : thus. The 

 rain settles in some 

 small hollow, and by 

 its alternate evapora- 

 tion and freezing, 

 detaches crystals of 

 felspar, which, being 

 actuated by the wind 

 as it ruffles the water, 

 assume a rotary 

 motion, and in process 





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Fig. 6. — WINDOW. 



measurement of a cross-head whicli was in the Churchtown, asking to be supplied 

 with a working drawing for a shaft of due proportions. This having been sent 

 to him, he defrayed the cost, and had the old head erected upon the new shaft, 

 and set up the restored cross in his churchyard. A worthy example for other 

 Cornish Vicars, who have shaft-less crosses in their possession, to imitate. A.H.M. 



