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 CORNWALL a few feet below the surface of hard sand, but many feet below the drift-sand that had over- swept the spot. The remains were those of a comparatively small race, the tallest man here buried being not more than 5 ft. 6 in. Hawkstor, a hill of 1029 ft. on the Bodmin Moors, has a circle known as the Stripple Stones. This circle was originally a very fine specimen, 148 ft. in diameter, with a magnificent central pillar of I 2 ft. in height ; but it has been badly dealt with. Hayle (Heyle or Hel River) can boast of having been, traditionally at least, the great landing-place of Irish saints who came hither direct from their native country ; but those who came through South Wales usually landed in the Padstow estuary, or came overland by way of Devon. Near the present site of Hayle, at a place named Revyer or Riviere (supposed to be a Norman-French translation of the Cornish Jiel), was the palace of the king or chieftain Theodore. Leiand tells us that this stood on the E. of the mouth of the Hayle River, and is now, " as sum think, drounid with sand ". Drowned with sand it probably is, and if it can be identified in site with a house named Reviere, in the parish of Lelant, it must have been on the W. of the Hayle. Robert Hunt says that " this Christian king gave the saints shelter at his palace " ; but he also seems to have slain not a few of them, and those that escaped him had to resist his " Christian " zeal by entrenching themselves on 126