268 Mr. RAY’ 's Itineraries. 
royal grows in great Plenty by the 
Way Sides; and near Hculfworthyy 
, (a mean Market-Town in Devon- 
Jbire) in the Way to Launcefton^ we 
faw in the Hedges great Numbers of 
a kind of wild Cherry-Trees, with 
a long lharp-pointed Leaf. 
Friday yum the 27th, We paffed 
on towards Pad/tow, but rode firft 
to Fintagel., where we found Cornijh 
Diamonds on the Rocks; but the 
faireft and largeft are met with in the 
Quarries, where they dig Stone. 
Some there are, of the Bignefs and 
Length of one’s Finger, very- clear 
and pellucid; all of them have fix 
Sides, befides the Ends. At Denby- 
bouly about two Miles from Ttntagely 
is the beft Quarry of Slate in the 
Country ; it lies Eaft and Weft, and , 
deepens Weft ward. They flit it with 
Chiflels into thin ILamince: When it 
is 
