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failing, the Cornifh felt the neceffity of applying themfelves to 
hufbandry, “ there being no trades, (fays the judicious Mr. Carew, 
“ pag. 21.) which fet fo many hands at work, at all times of the 
“ year, as that one of tillage”. Their improvements anfwered 
their expectations, and in the latter end of the reign of queen 
Elizabeth, the Cornifh found themfelves in a capacity, not only 
to fupport themfelves, but to export a great deal of corn to Spain, 
and other foreign parts. Cultivation has been advancing ever fence, 
and better fenced, and more profitable inclofures for the plough are 
no where to be feen, than the banks of our greateft rivers Tamar, 
Alan, Fal and Fawy, and the fea-coaft of our harbours can fhewt.. 
In the eaftern parts of the county, they ufe lime made of a Lime m* 
coarfe marble-ftone, for manure, and feme of this lime rifes in nure - 
Cornwall: On the Barton of Wolvedon, in Probus parifh, there has 
been lime-ftone found ; there is a lime quarry on the lands of Sir 
John Molefworth, Bart, of Pencarrow. Near Padftow, there is 
marble, but it has never anfwered the expence of burning for lime. 
At New-Kaye, in the parifh of lower St. Columb, they find a 
coarfe marble on the fhores, which they have burnt for lime, and 
it burns freely, but the ftone has fo much of the cryftalline matter 
in it, that in the lime there were found many fmall lumps of ftone 
vitrefied, which greatly diminifiied the price. This is probably 
what Grew * (Muf. R. S. pag. 316) calls the word fort of Cornifh 
marble ufed for lime. The beft lime-ftone I have heard of raifed in 
Cornwall, is in the parifh of South Pedherwyn, which anfwers very 
well, and is much ufed thereabouts: This is near the confines of 
Devonfhire, from which, (namely from Plymouth and Lyfton quarries) 
the Eaftern parts have moft of the lime which ferves for manure. 
Of marie the ufe is little known, and lefs pradtifed in Corn- Marle . 
wall ; but marie we have in feveral places ; fo that we cannot fo 
juftly tax the land for being deftitute of that ufeful manure, as 
blame the inhabitants, the greateft part of whom having fea-fand 
and ore-weed in plenty, do not heed what their own grounds 
might afford them to their great emolument ; others again have their 
attention fo much engrofled by tin and copper, that although they 
fhould turn up marie every day, and indeed often do fo, yet every 
thing gives place to the greedy queft of metals. It mull be allowed, 
that drefting abundantly with marie, as in feme counties they are 
obliged to do, to the amount of fifteen or eighteen hundred loads 
in an acre, is extremely expenfive, and cannot in a few years an- 
fiver the expence, but our Cornifh foil in general needs not fo thick 
a coating, one hundred load may be enough in an acre ; neither 
need we ufe any marie but what by experiment we find quickening 
h Having compared the wafte, and the cultivated I reckon the latter are to the former as 20 to 1 r. 
grounds of each hundred, as impartially as I could, * Compleat Body of Hulbandiy. 
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