SECT. II. 
Of late far- 
ther difco- 
vered. 
2I+ NATURAL HISTORY 
face, fays, “ the tinners of Cornwall do now frequently find little 
quantities of gold and filver among the tin-ore, and Queen Ann 
(1702) granted a patent to Mr. Robert Lydall of Truro, for fepa- 
rating gold and filver from tin by precipitation in a reverberatory 
furnace by fome peculiar fluxes. 
Thefe difeoveries have been lately advanced : in 1 7 53, fome perfons % 
of the parifh of St. Stephen’s Branel, ftreaming for tin in the parifh of 
Creed, near the borough of Granpont, and perceiving fome grains of a 
yellow colour, very fmall, but yet fo heavy as to refill the water, 
culled out fome of the largeft grains, and carried the tin to a melt- 
ing-houfe near d ruro. The gold was in fuch plenty in this tin, that 
the melter, Mr. Walter Rofwarne, taking the gold at firft lor mun- 
dic or copper, “ blamed them for bringing it for fale without having 
firft burnt it ; but, upon aflaying the ore, found it to make a very 
great produce, and exceedingly fine metal : the miners then took 
out of their pockets feveral pieces of pure gold, and one ftone as 
large as a walnut, with a pure vein of gold in the middle of the 
ftone, about the bignefs of a goofe quill ; the clear bits of gold, 
and that in the ftone, were then aflayed, and produced juft an ounce 
of pure gold d .” The tinners became afterwards more attentive to 
what was mixed with their ftream-tin, and at feveral times are fup- 
pofed to have fold fomewhat confiderable. This piece of good 
fortune not remaining any long time a fecret, the tinners in the 
adjacent parifhes of St. Stephen’s Branel, St. Eue ', and St. Meuan , 
followed their example, and have rather had better fuccefs this way. 
At Luny, in the parifh of St. Eue, James Gaved, a ftreamer there, 
found native gold immerfed in the body of a blue fandy flat : “ He 
has alfo feen gold (as he fays) kerned about fpar, that is, fixed 
and concreted on the quartz 6 ; but it is very rare to find it thus 
incorporated. Mr. Rofwarne above-mentioned fufpe&s, as he in- 
forms me, that there is gold, more or lefs, in all ftream-tin in the 
county, having feen it in tin brought from St. Eue, Creed, St. 
Stephen’s, St. Meuan, Probus, Kenwyn, and many other parifhes. 
He has now by him one piece of pure gold, brought him by the 
forementioned perfons, which weighs to the value of twenty-feven {hil- 
lings, another that weighs in value feventeen {hillings : he has feen two 
or three bits from Probus which weighed about fifteen {hillings, 
intermixed with white fpar or quartz : I have one which weighs 
half a guinea ; but the largeft piece found in Cornwall, which 
has reached my notice, is that in the pofleflion of William Lemon, 
Efq; of Carclew, which weighs in gold-coin three pounds three 
c Charles and Samuel T rethewy. 'At Luny. 
d Letter from Mr. Rofwarne, February nth, f At Trelowa. 
jneS « In Cornwall called Spar. 
75 {hillings, 
