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November 22. Cornish Telegraph publishes a commmiication on " The 

 Market of Pensans." 



December 5. Death of Mr. Gordon William Francis Gregor, of Trewar- 

 thenick ; a Proprietor of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 



December Q. Cornish Telegraph publishes a letter signed "E. C. W.," 

 concerning a translation of the Bible, about 1327, by John de Trevisa, a 

 native of Cornwall. Letters on the same subject ; December 20, signed 

 " Nepos," and December 27, signed "Penwith." 



December 15. West Briton states that a recent storm having made a 

 clean sweep of the beach at Eeady-Money Cove, Fowey, had disclosed a 

 singular geological formation. The lower stratum exposed being blue clay, 

 the next above it was an alluvial deposit about a foot thick, on which once 

 grew a coppice ; and over this was another stratum of blue clay ; the three 

 layers belonging to different periods, and the middle, a vegetation streak, 

 being totally different from the epochs which produced the upper and lower 

 crusts. 



December 27. Cornish Telegraph publishes Elihu Burritt's Impressions 

 of West Cornwall. 



December 29. West Briton publishes an account of " The District of 

 Meneage," signed " Tbe." 



In the course of the year, the Western Morning News published descrip- 

 tions of the following places and objects of interest : — 



January 23. Wadebridge. / 



January 31. The Air in Cornish Mines ; with results of experiments by 

 Dr. Angus Smith. 



February 2. The Town of Bideford. 



March 14. Fowey. 



April 3. The Granite of Cornwall and Devon. 



August 22, and September 11. The Town and Trade of Launceston, 



September 29 and 30, and October 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Devonport : its 

 Sanitary State and Government. 



October 10. Lizard Serpentine Works. 



October 16. The Town of Helston. 



October 17. St. Ives. 



October 23. The Lizard, 



