Urns. 
322 NATURAL HISTORY 
effectual fluxes for metals ; manuring with Cornifti marie, improv- 
ing the pottery-ware, or even introducing the porcelain or dell- 
manufadture ; a defign of this nature, animated by a few people of 
rank, from its own apparent and neceflary confequences, would foon 
make its way into the approbation and patronage of every man of 
opulency and publick fpirit, and would be a fure method of making 
the people more induftrious, flourishing, and happy. But to en- 
courage and promote arts moft effectually in a country at fuch a 
diftance as Cornwall is from the great centre of power and riches, 
nothing can contribute more, than that gentlemen of fortune and 
rank generally reflde at their paternal feats, build, plant, and im- 
prove barren grounds, enforce juftice, ftimulate induftry, excite 
emulation, reconcile dilputes, and lead forth now and then into the 
reach of favour and reward latent merit ; fuch occupations as theSe 
might well become the time and attention of thofe of the higheft 
rank, and the moft affluent fortune ; they are rational and gener- 
ous, diffufive of plenty and happinefs, in the place which has the 
firft right (the right of birth) to our affections; they endear and 
hold faft the dependants of the gentry, preferve and advance their 
patrimonies, and need not in the leaft claSh with or interrupt their 
more folemn duties to the Church and to the State. 
CHAP. XXVII. 
Antiquities which have occurred in Cornwall jince the year 1753* 
P LAT E xxix. Fig. 1. page 298, is part of a curious urn; the 
anfa folid ; the clay fine, well burnt ; neatly ornamented, with 
double, Straight lifts round the edge and handle, and wavy lifts on 
the fides; colour cinerous; the Shell three eighths of an inch thick. 
It was found under a large barrow or heap of ftones, at Karn, in 
the parifti of Morvah, 1754. 
Fig. 11. ibid. A plain urn, inclofing human bones, found in Mr. 
T. Smith’s garden in Newfort, in the ifle of St. Mary’s, Scilly : it 
flood upon the natural clay, inclofed in a vault four feet fix inches 
long, two feet three inches wide, about one foot three inches deep ; 
the fides of the vault were faced with ftone, its covering, flat ftones ; 
the run of the vault N. N. E. This is inferted as the only one 
yet dilcovered in the ifles of Scilly, to Shew that theSe Iflanders had 
the fame way of burning the dead, and preferving what the fire 
left unconSumed, as other ancient nations. 
Fig. v. and vi. are two gold-coins found at Karn-breh in the 
year 1749, with thoSe published in the Antiquities of Cornwall, 
page 
Coins. 
