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vered in this county of fuch high antiquity; and will 
fatisfy the learned, that the Romans had penetrated 
into the wefternmoft parts of Cornwall before the 
empire became Chriftian : that the facrifical veflels 
the paterae, and prsefericulum, are of tin, the natural 
product of Cornwall : the vafe, the weights, the 
millftone, are alfo of Cornilh granite : and by the 
walls, the religious utenfils, the weights, the quantity 
of Ihoes, bones, horns, vafes, urn, and allies, this fort 
appears to have been that of a fixed garrifon, not a 
temporary occafional fortification : that by the fhape 
of this fort, and the antiquities difcovered in it, it 
was a Roman fort. 
I remain. 
S I R, 
Your moft obedient Servant, 
William Borlafe. 
IV. A new unproved Silk -Reel. By the 
Rev. Samuel Pullein, M. A. 
Read Feb. i, /” |' A H E following paper, it is hoped, 
* 759 - Jj^ w in h e ]p t0 promote the culture 
of filk in our American colonies, and to bring it to 
that perfection, which at prefent is fcarce found in 
any country but Piedmont. 
When filk is reeled from the cocoons, the thread 
is fmeared with the natural gum of the filk foftcned 
by the heat of the water out of which it ii reeled. 
If 
