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down about the time the king was beheaded ; and a third 

 they call the Spanish Lady, &c. Cornish diamonds are 

 found hereabout, and indeed in all this country. Mr. 

 Dickan Gwyn lives not far off, in St. Just's parish, who 

 is the only man we could hear of that can now write the 

 Cornish language. We met with none here but what 

 could speak English; few of the children could speak 

 Cornish ; so that language is like, in a short time, to be 

 quite lost. 



St. Bury en, near the Land's End, is a deanery, which 

 formerly Dr. Crichton had, now Dr. Weeks has it. 

 There is a tower upon an hill, not far from the Land's 

 End, which serves for a sea-mark. At Pensance we saw 

 and described several sorts of fish, to wit, MuUus major 

 [red mullet,] TracJmrus [the weaver,] Fagms [the 

 braize,] Erythrinus [Spanish sea-bream,] hake, haddock, 

 whistling-fish [three-bearded rockling,] rawlin, pollacks 

 [Merlucius pollachius,'] holibut, conger, and tub -fish 

 [a gurnard,] which is no other than a red gurnard. 

 We there saw the houses in which they lay (and the 

 manner in which they press) their fish, especially pil- 

 chards, they pile them up on a bed of a great length and 

 breadth, to wit, as long and broad as the house, made for 

 that purpose, will permit, and breast high ; then, in the 

 w^all behind, they have an hole into which they thrust a 

 rafter or post of timber, (which reacheth cross the bed of 



was about seven feet long and of a great bigness ; his stomach was full of 

 pilchards. We also saw the Halieedus, or bald buzzard, of a dark colour on 

 tlie back, and white under the belly, having strong legs and talons so placed 

 that she can bend two backward and two forward. The wings, when expli- 

 cated in proportion to the body, are of a great length. This bird was shot, 

 having a mullet in her talon. We likewise here saw the godwit, which they 

 caU a stone curlew, the same, I suppose, which is common upon our coasts 

 in Suffolk. The colour differs somewhat from a bird of the same kind I 

 was shown at Venice, which was more cinereous or dun, and had not that 

 variety of colours in the wings and tail. At the Lizard Point, on the rocks, I 

 observed Herniaria glabra [probably including H. glabra, Linn, and H. ciliatay 

 Bab.J in great plenty; also Asparagus vulgaris \_A. officinalis, Linn.,] and 

 near the cliffs Hyacinthus autumnalis minor [Scilla autumnalis. Linn.] abund- 

 antly. On Goon Hilly Downs, near the Lizard Point, is a kind of heath 

 \Erica vagans. Linn.] which I have not elsewhere seen in England." 



