OF CORNWALL. 323 
page 242 ; they feem both of the fame die and value, but the im- 
preffion differently corroded by time and ufe, may, by being exhi- 
bited in both, tend to their explanation. I can fay nothing decifive 
as to the fymbols, but I conje&ure that on the convex fide there 
is the rude figure of a fhip with two mails, and the fails fpread ; 
on the convex feems a reprefentation of the terraqueous globe, en- 
compaffed in the middle with a zone wavy , which divides the upper 
from the under hemifphere. In the upper hemifphere are placed 
the fun and moon, in the under the leffer luminaries. 
Fig. vii. and viii. ibid, are two different heads from any already 
publifhed in Plate xix. of the Antiquities of Cornwall, page 242 : 
the faces are bold, and not inexpreffive, turned different ways ; the 
reverfes are charged with horfes and wheels in the fame flyle as 
moft of thofe already publifhed. 
Fig. ix. ibid, is not an ill fancied head ; the diadem and its 
clafp very diftind and uniformly fet, and the robing of the fhoulder 
plain and indifputable. In the reverfe, the body of the horfe is 
remarkably {lender, the engraver, as I apprehend, being more intent 
to exprefs the expedition and fwiftnefs, than the natural fhape and 
proportion of the creature. The coins are of their real fize and 
Ihape. I have only to obferve, that Bouteroue’s coins of the ancient 
Gauls have neither the weight nor true fhape expreffed, becaufe 
either worn with ufe, or covered or eaten with ruF (fays he, ibid. 
Introd. page 40). All publifhed by him of this kind have plain 
legends, except B, page 55, which however on the reverfe has fome- 
thing like the letters m a • They can give little aid therefore to- 
wards explaining this treafure of Britifh antiquity found in Corn- 
wall * but if one can make any certain conclufion from coins printed 
in fuch a manner, it mull; be that they were Fruck by a people 
well acquainted with the Greeks or Romans ; they favour nothing 
of the antiquity, rudenefs, and fimplicity of thofe of Karnbreh. 
Fig. x. ibid, is the little peteril or Form-finch *, which was drawn 
by the late Mr. {ago before-mentioned, Chaplain of Loo. Of this 
bird, rarely found on the Englifh coaFs, Mr. Catefby in the Ap- 
pendix to his Nat.HiF. of Carolina, & ?c. (page and tab. 14) gives 
us the following account : « The Form-finch or pittrel, is about 
the fize of a chaffinch; the whole bird, except the rump, (which 
is white) is of a dufky, brown colour, the back being fomewhat 
darker than the belly ; the bill is half an inch long, Fender, dark- 
brown, and crooked at the end : by opening the head of one of 
thefe birds, I found that the noFrils confiFed of two parallel tubes, 
proceeding from within the head, and running half way along the 
upper mandible of the bill, forming thereon a protuberance ; the 
* The bird mentioned before, page 247, and referred to the explanation of this plate. 
