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THE AUTUMN EXCURSION. 
On Monday and Tuesday the 19th and 20th of August, a 
numerous party of members and friends of the Institution joined 
in what proved to be a very pleasant Excursion, on a northernly 
route from Truro, for inspection of objects of interest, chiefly of 
antiquarian character, at and near St. Columb Major, St. Mawgan, 
St. Columb Minor, Cubert, and Perranzabuloe. 
In the absence from the county, of the President of the Institu- 
tion, Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P., the duties of presidency, during 
the two days, devolved on Dr. Jago, F.R.S., one of the Vice- 
Presidents ; who received zealous aid from Mr. Whitley, one of 
the Honorary Secretaries, and other Members of the Council, and 
from Mr. F. V. Budge, Assistant Secretary. 
Starting from the Truro Town Hall at 8 a.m. on Monday, the 
excursionists were driven, en route towards St. Columb, to the 
“Indian Queen” Inn, and here they found awaiting them, a party 
from Bodmin, with Mr. T. Q. Couch, F.S.A., and Rev. W. Iago, 
LS. Soc. Ant. Lond., as ciceront. In the vicinity of the inn, was 
inspected an Inscribed Stone mentioned by Dr. Borlase,* and 
which, after having been long lost sight of, had lately been re- 
discovered by Mr. Iago. The learned Dr. Borlase gave as its 
probable date, A.D. ¢. 920, and read its legend: “ Ruani hic 
jacit”; but the letters are now almost obliterated, and, con- 
sequently, the reading of them is uncertain. 
After a brief visit to an amphitheatre, of recent formation— 
a sort of modern plain-an-gwarry, nearly “touching” the inn, a 
start, by the now combined forces from Truro and Bodmin was 
made over the Tregoss Moors to the ancient entrenchment “Castle- 
an-Dinas” ; visiting, by the way, the Castle-an-Dinas Tin Mine, 
where much interest was manifested in the explanations afforded . 
by Captain Parkin. Here also the party received, and heartily 
appreciated, welcome hospitalities provided by the Purser, Mr. 
Whitefield of St. Columb. The fine old British entrenchment, 
called, by reduplication, Castle-an-Dinas, had to be reached on 
foot, by a scramble through gorse and heather. It is conspicuously 
* Borlase’s Antiquities (ed. 1754), Vol. i, p. 364; and Pl. xxxi. 
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