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CH. XXII. Land and water-infedts in Cornwall, p. 248. Their ufe, p. 249. Food, ib. Inftindt, p. 250. 
W ater-infects, their numbers, p. 251. Their lucid appearance in waters agitated, p. 251, &c. Sea 
zoophytes- — polypes, page 253, & c. Plate xxv. Sea-infedts, p. 254. Sea-nettles, or jelly-fifh, p. 
256. Fixed and nayant, fix forts defcribed and engraved, p. 257, &c. Star-filh, p. 259. Sorts 
defcribed, ib. Cuttle-fifh and ink-filh, p. 260. 
XXIII. Of Filh, p. 261. The Ihote, trouts, pele, falmon, where caught, p. 262. Lo trout defcribed, 
p. 263. Sea filh, cetaceous ; the blower, grampus, (or granpefle) p. 263, Plate xxvi. Sea-fifh j 
porpefle, a miftake probably in Mr. Jago’s icon, Plate xxvii. Large filh ; the dolphin, ib. Sharks, 
the fea-fox, and porbeagle, p. 265. Flat-filh, raies, triloft, fquatina, frog-filh, ib. Other flat filh, 
p. 266. Round-filh — fun-filh, p. 267. Why all its fins almoit in the hinder part, p. 268. Afelli, 
cod, and pollack, ib. Mackrel, p. 269. A non-defcript fuck-filh, p. 269. Dracunculus, p. 270. 
Bafle, mullet, gurnards, ib. Herring, pilchard, p. 271. Skipper and black-filh, ib. Profit of filh- 
ing to Cornwall, p. 272, &c. Whether filh hear, p. 273. Shell-filli, p. 274. Lobfter, fhrimp, 
oyfter, ib. Why fea-animals prey upon one another, p. 275. Shells, ib. Shells, and their engrav- 
ings defcribed, p. 276, &c. Foflil-lhells, p. 278. Cornwall thought to have none, p. 279. Extra- 
neous foffils varioufly diftributed, ib. Two reafons why Cornwall might have none, becaufe of the 
fcarcity of fuch bodies on particular Ihores ; fecondly, becaufe waters were corrofive, p. 280, though 
not deftitute of fufficient proofs of the floods reaching there, ib. Little fpar, little chalk or flints in 
Cornwall, yet there are fome extraneous follils, p. 281. Foflil horn, ib. A lump of fpar, including 
limpets, pedtuncles, &c. from Falmouth harbour, ib. 
XXIV. Reptiles, p. 282. Cures for the bite of adders, p. 283. Snakes, ib. None of the ferpent kind 
in the Scilly Iflands, ib. The flow-worm, p. 284. Seal, or fea-calf, ib. The imaginary mermaid, 
285 ; for which appellation its manner of iwimming, great docility, and cunning, may have given 
fome grounds, ib. Two turtles taken on the Cornilh coaft, the icon of one, Plate xxvii. Fig. iv. 
Explained, ib. 
XXV. Quadrupeds, p. 286. Sheep, ib. Black cattle, p. 287. Butter made of fealded milk, ib. A 
premature conception — monftrous birth, ib. Horfes, p. 288. Not large, but ferviceable, ib. Deer 
and parks, ib. Wild quadrupeds will grow tame and docile by degrees and gentle ufage, p. 289. 
The connexion with and dependance of brutes on man, ib. &c. How adapted to the afliftance and 
comfort of man, p. 290, &c. 
XXVI. Of the Inhabitants, p. 291. Their number, ib. Health, and inftances of longaevity, p. 292. Of 
ftrength of body, p. 293. A defective birth, ib- A torpid ftate of feven years, p. 294. General 
cuftoms — their gratulation of the fpring, p. 295. Bonfires, plays, ib. What MS’s remain of thefe 
interludes, ib. &c. Of the metre, fcanning, and ftanza of thefe poems, p. 296. Their drama ill 
conftrudted, p. 297. Places for adting were the Rounds, ib. Piran-round defcribed, Plate xxix. 
Fig. in. and iv. Explained, p. 291. Such interludes not peculiar to Cornwall, p. 299. Of wreft- 
ling, ib. Hurling, p. 300. The name and exercife, ib. Parifti feafts, p. 301. Their abufe and 
ufe, p. 302. Local cuftoms — as bouflening, p. 302. The cocking-ftool, p. 303. Proceflxon at 
Loftwythyel, ib. Manners of the inhabitants, p.304. Civil to ftrangers ; gentry apt in ftate-mattersj 
of reputation in war ; Charles the firft’s letter of thanks to the county of Cornwall, p. 305. Of the 
battle of Lanfdown; the infeription of the monument there, p. 306. Lower fort of inhabitants 
reckoned litigious, p. 307. Miners given to immoderate drinking, p. 308. Nor lefs the people of 
towns, ib. owing to corruption of elections, ib. Whence it is that Cornwall fends fuch a remarkable 
number of reprefentatives to parliament, p. 309, &c. In what order and for what reafons fo many 
boroughs obtained the privilege of electing members of parliament, ib. 310, &c. Trade, p. 312. 
Tenures and revenues, ib. Of the Cornilh language, a dialect of the ancient Britilh ; its pronun- 
ciation, idiom, and proverbs, p. 314, Its gradual declenfion, page 315. From the reformation, ib. 
Its expiration in the prefent age, p. 316. Prefent ftate of arts, ib. 
