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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



The Editor will be glad to receive short Notes on Discoveries, and 

 occurrences of interest, relating to the Antiquities, Geology, and 

 Natural History, fyc, of the County, for insertion in this portion of 

 the Journal. 



No. 1. 



The Dollar Ship of Gunwallo. 



Mr. John Johns of the Lizard writes as follows to Mr. 

 W. H. Tregellas with reference to the above. 



The story of the wreck of the Dollar Ship has been repeated 

 to me several times, by two different men I knew well, when 

 I was a boy, who said the ship containing dollars was chased by 

 a Pirate, and came to misfortune by a fog. At the time of the 

 wreck a large quantity of dollars were said to have been washed 

 ashore and picked up. 



I remember the miners sinking a shaft and driving an adit 

 into the shaft, the shaft not being so deep as the adit ; by 

 entering the shaft, they cut a hole about 6 inches in diameter 

 down to meet the adit, thinking the dollars would be forced up 

 through this hole into the shaft, and in cleaning out the shaft 

 dollars were found, not many at a time. They are supposed 

 to be amalgamated and not easily separated from the main bulk. 

 It was reported at the time that there were fourteen tons of 

 dollars besides doubloons in the ship. 



No doubt the pirates knew that she was rich, and chased 

 her for the purpose of enriching themselves. Dollars have been 

 picked up from time to time, especially when the wind has been 

 blowing some time from the westward, and then the sand goes 

 out against the wind and the heavy sea cleans out the place 

 from sand and pebbles. The dollars have been seen all clear of 

 the sand, but no getting at them, as the sea rushes over the 

 outside rocks too strong for any one to venture near the shore, 



