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 LUXULYAN— LYONESSE wild hyacinths. The Perp. church has a double dedication, to SS. Cyricus and Julitta ; but the name Luxulyan, which Carew gives as Lasullian, clearly embodies the name of another saint — perhaps the Sulian of Wales and Brittany. In the village is a well of St. Cyricus. The Cornish Stannary Records were once deposited in the tower of Luxulyan Church, but during the Civil War were removed to Lostwithiel, and there unhappily destroyed. Among these granite moorlands are many traces of ancient tin-workings; and not only granite, but porphyry is found here. An immense block of por- phyry, weighing 70 tons, was converted into a sarcophagus for the Duke of Wellington, at an expense of over j^iooo. Bryan, the founder of the now numerous Bryanites, was a native of this parish, and founded here his first chapel. Lynher. — This river rises on the Bodmin Moors, flows through the lovely Trebartha woods, and after a course of 27 miles falls into the Lynher Creek, where it unites with the Tamar in forming the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound. Lyonesse is a name sometimes wrongly ap- plied to the whole of Cornwall. It really applies only to those portions of West Cornwall which are supposed to have been submerged, and of which the Scillies are said to be survivals. (See Scilly.) It is not easy to account for the name, but it is certainly con- nected with the Leon of Brittany. 171