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flor’d with fuch antiquities, as one might expedt from 
their long commerce with the Phenicians, Greeks 
and Romans ; yet I found them well worth feeing * 
they are inhabited by an induftrious, apprehenfive 
people; theii lands, fortifications, and commerce, 
are capable of great and eafy improvements, and their 
harbours are of the utmoft importance to the naviga- 
tion of this kingdom. I am, 
Ludgvan, Dec. 21, 
1752. 
S I R, 
^ our moft obedient fervant, 
Wm. Borlafe. 
ExtraEl of another Letter of Mr. Borlafe to the 
Rev. Dr. Lyttelton, Dean e/ Exeter, and 
F. R. S. 
Read^Feb. 8 , / g 'HAT there has been fuch a fub- 
X fdence of the lands belonging to 
thefe iflands, (as is before fuppofed) the prefent ruins 
of the iflands teftify. That this fubfldence reach’d 
even to the Mount’s-bay, and laid under water a great 
part of the low lands, then woody, there being now 
10 feet water, (as at Sylley over the hedges, fo here 
over the trunks and roots of trees) I have fuch con- 
vincing reafons to lay before you at a proper time, as 
will exclude all doubt. So that the fliores in Sylley, 
and the flhores in Cornwall, are equal proofs of fuch 
inundation, and the memory t)f it is preferv’d in tra- 
dition, tho’, like other traditions, obfcur’d in fable. 
I 2 When 
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