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 CORNWALL falls about 40 ft. into a circular basin of rock, the " kieve " as the Cornish call it. Legend says that St. Nectan had an oratory here, and that when dying he threw the silver bell of his chapel into the waterfall. There is also a tale of two sisters, foreigners, who came to live on the site of his cell. No one knew who they were ; they lived and died unknown. Hawker wrote a poem on the subject, in which, with his customary loose archasology, he gives St. Neot's name to the spot instead of St. Nectan's :■ — • " It is from Neot's sainted steep The foamy waters flash and leap ; It is where shrinking wild-flowers grow, They lave the nymph that dwells below ", Nortliill (about 6i m. S.W. of Launceston) has a church dedicated to St. Torney, the Welsh Tyrnog ; unless Torney be simply a corruption of iighern, in which case it would refer to one of the royal martyrs, Melyan or Mylor. The church has a fine three-stage tower. In this parish is Trebartha Hall, with its beautiful woodland scenery, and the lovely Goletha Falls. Otter}ia))i {i m. N.E. of Otterham Station) is clearly the Othrain of Domesday, a manor given to De Mortain. It is a most thinly populated district. PADSTOW is a corruption of Petrock's- stow, which was also a name applied to Bod- min, thus causing confusion. Petrock was a Celtic saint, probably a Welshman, who went