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 310 AN ACCOUNT OF SOME MONUMENTAL remain, though in a ruined state''. The churches or oratories they erected correspond in general character with those yet remaining in Irehmd; and we have wayside crosses here which also resemble those in Ireland. It is not unfair to suj)pose that these crosses were cut during the lifetime of the missionaries I have referred to above. The examples which our woodcuts illustrate re])resent three nume- rous classes. The first of them which is here shewn Avas sketched in a village in the parish of St. Buryan, in the Avest, called " crouzen- wraze," i. e. "cross and circle," in the old Cor- nish lano;uao;e, a name evidently taken from this little cross, indi- cating the respect with which it was regarded. It is not more than three feet high above the ground, and is hewn in granite. The next example here fio-ured is taken from the market place or open space of a vil- lage near the church of St. Buryan, called after the custom in Cornwall, "the church town." The cross in this in- stance is formed with a himian figure, the arms of which are extended at right angles with the body, upon a disc or round-headed stone post. In the churchyard '' Sec ail account of sonic of these in a paper on tlic ancient oratories of Cornwall, ill vol. ii. p '2'1'> of this .lournal. ■v-^"-- " . Buryan, Cburch towxL