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moment strongly indicating the truth of some portion 
of the material here advanced, and with the re¬ 
lation of which I close my remarks. A clergyman 
travelling to a distant place of worship with the 
road to which he was unacquainted, was thrown 
from his horse and received a severe blow on the 
head ; he got up stunned and stupified, and without 
knowing his actual position ; fancying however he 
might now proceed, he mounted his horse again 
which however happened to have its head directed 
in the contrary way to that it had been pursuing. 
The gentleman hastened to make up forloss of time, 
but did not discover his error till he actually en¬ 
tered the town whence he had set out. 
No mention is made of this sense or faculty in 
any work to which I have referred. It must be 
understood that though I have assumed the cardinal 
points as those referred to by persons in the exer¬ 
cise of this power, I have merely used those names 
and points because these would be acquired by 
education in all civilized nations and communities, 
not doubting at the same time but that other arbi¬ 
trary points and names would be set up by men in 
an uncivilized condition, as indeed the savage tribes 
of Africa actually do; the argument applies similarly 
in both instances, it contends that men innately 
appoint for themselves certain spots of the horizon, 
and unerringly remembering these they act as guides 
for distant journeyings and directors in long-con¬ 
tinued courses. 
The Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus) is a bird by 
no means uncommon in the South Hams. It has 
been said to be more frequent about this village,—• 
Yealmpton, than anywhere else, but I am quite sure 
this is an error, as I have heard it in all the adjoin¬ 
ing parishes,—Holbeton,NewtonFerrers,Plympton, 
Plymstock, Wembury, Kingston, Revelstoke, Brix- 
ton, &c. as also at Mount Edgcumbe, Mount Gould 
