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Besides thefe repetitions of prior obfervations, there are doubtlefs many mil- 
takes and faults, as well as errors of the prefs. I lhall be willing to acknow- 
ledge the former, and from the animadverfions of the more knowing, expedt 
the pleafure of becoming better informed. I print a lift of the latter, as far as 
a moft impartial revifal could difcover. 
It could not be otherwile than that feveral particulars of the following work Local obfer- 
fhould relate only to Cornwall, and are of little importance to the generality of va£l0ns ' 
the world ; but thofe circumftances, which concern not the bulk of mankind, 
the Reader will be fo good as to confider, may claim the moft ferious thoughts 
from the inhabitants of the County, and to their fervice only, he will be content 
that they fhould be configned. 
In the defcriptive part, I have been greatly obliged to the Survey of Corn- 
wall, publilhed in the year 1602, by Richard Carew, of Eaft Anthony, in 
Cdrnwall, Efq; who to the nobility of his defcent, added all the qualifications 
of the gentleman, fcholar, and chriftian : his fharp apprehenfion, and ftrong 
fenfe, left few topicks unexamined, many, for the knowledge of his time, 
well noticed. 
It would have been ungenerous to his memory, as well as diftrefling and im- 
poverifhing my Subjedt, to have negledted his work, tho’ he is neither flaviftily 
copied, or ever made ufe of without acknowledgment. Mr. Scawen’s MS re- 
lating to Cornwall I am alfo obliged to, efpecially with regard to the Cornifh 
Language. 
The geography of Rivers, Harbours, and Creeks, I found extremely deficient ; 
I am therefore the more particular in tracing their courfes and names, in which 
the Itinerary of Leland has affifted me. 
I have added a Map, not to travel by, or with an intent to corredt the 
Maps already published, (of which Martin’s has been of moft ufe to me) this 
muft be done by better hands ; but purely for the fervice of thofe who will read 
the Antiquities and Natural Hiftory of Cornwall. 
For feveral informations in the above mentioned particulars, I have been ob- 
liged to fome gentlemen now living, and for that reafon, I have mentioned them 
only in thofe parts of the work, concerning which they were fo good as to com- 
municate their Obfervations. 
In the following work then, if the Reader fhall mifs any entertainment which 
he might expedt, he will perhaps meet with nothing partial, affuming, or offen- 
five. 
