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 CARNON— CHEESEWRING church was formerly noted both for size and ugliness, but the architect, Mr. Sedding, has removed most of the latter complaint. James Watt stayed at Chacewater while he erected the first pumping-engine that was employed in Cornish mines. CJiarlestowH (2 m. E. of St. Austell), named after Charles Rashleigh who constructed the harbour, supplies a port for this busy district. Much china-clay is shipped here ; but many of the neighbouring mines, here as elsewhere, are disused. Cheesewring (about 7 m. N. of Liskeard) is a mushroom-like pile of weathered granite rocks, standing on an eminence of over 1000 ft., the lower blocks being much smaller than the upper. We need not attribute this singular pile to the Druids or to any other human agency ; natural causes, denuding such rocks of earth and soft environments, have done the work, as has been the case with the logans. From this hill can be seen the two Channels, together with a wide extent of Devon and Cornwall. Near by are the " Hurlers " (prob- ably of the later Stone Age), which tradition says are a body of Sabbath-breakers, who played their favourite game on the holy day. They formerly consisted of three circles, and two monoliths ; but the circles have been robbed of many stones. Almost countless prehistoric monuments have been mutilated or despoiled in this fashion, by careless or ignorant farmers and proprietors. The Cheesewring itself nearly 83