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best we had seen in Cornwall. In this parish did live 

 the ancient family of the Carmino's, which is now extinct. 



Friday, July the 4th, we set out for Bodmin ; by the 

 way we saw Roche Rock, of a great height, standing in 

 the highest part of a large moor. Near the church of 

 Roche, on the top of the rock, was a chapel dedicated to 

 St. Mary, now ruined. There is nothing very remark- 

 able in Bodmin, only a very large and fair church, with a 

 spire-steeple, of which there are very few in Cornwall. 

 The water which supplies the conduit (as Carew observes) 

 runs through the church-yard. There are a great many 

 tanners in this town. We did not see what Carew men- 

 tions of the kitchens and out-houses being up stairs, 

 neither is the place held to be unhealthful, so far as we 

 could learn. 



Saturday, July the 5th, we travelled on to Saltash, 

 and passed St. Neot's, and so went to the other half 

 stone (so called) which hath an ancient inscription upon it, 

 but is so weather-beaten that it is not legible. Upon the 

 top of an high rock, about two miles north of St. Clere, 

 are those stones which they call the Cheese- wring,* of 

 which Speed hath given a figure. These seem to be 

 naturally so piled one upon another, the least at the 

 bottom ; they lie askew and not perpendicularly. A little 

 below, and nearer St. Clere, are the stones called the 

 hurlers, which are oblong rude stones, pitched in the 

 ground on one end, standing in three circles, the middle- 

 most the greatest ; their centers seem to be in one right 

 line : about half a mile from these, on the downs, stands 

 a stone called the Long-stone, more than two yards and 

 an half high, having a cross on both sides of it. 



We had an account of a hur ling-play much used in 

 Cornwall. There are two kinds of hurling, the in-hurling 

 and the out-hmling. In the first there are chosen twenty 

 or twenty-five of a side, and two goals are set up ; then 

 comes one with a small hard leather ball in his hand, and 



* Sec Mr. Boiiase's ' Antiquities of Cornwall.' 



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