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 CORNWALL Treffry, has two exquisite bay windows, dating from the time of Henry VIL The original hall and porch-room also survive, the latter being now the " Porphyry-room ". It must be confessed that some of the additions to this fine old mansion are not in the best taste. An old seat of another family, the Mohuns, is at Bodinnick, just over the ferry from Fowey ; it is now a farm. There are also many traces of Rashleighs at Fowey, their seat being at Mena- billy, 2 miles distant, where the late owner constructed a grotto to exemplify Cornwall's mineral wealth. This grotto is octagonal, and its sides are inlaid with Cornish ores, fossils, stones and shells. At the house is a remarkable mineral collection, where may be seen splendid specimens ofsulphuret of tin and copper, mala- chite, fluor, topazes, crystals, and blocks of pre- historic tin. By the eastern gate of the park is a granite pillar known as the Longstone, bearing the inscription Cirusius hie jac'it Cunomori JUlus. Fowey is rapidly gaining reputation as a watering-place, partly owing to its distinguished son, Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch ; it is the " Tro)- " of his writings. But artists from a distance, Mr. Tadema, Mr. Dicksee, have also learned to love the place, which, indeed, teems with beauty. Popularity will do less damage at Fowey than it does in some districts ; the situation of the place does not lend itself to easy expansion. Fowey River, rising at Foy-Fenton (the " spring or source of the Fowey "), on the 1 08