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 CORNWALL Par chiefly concerns travellers as being the junction for Fowey and Nevvcjuay ; but its little harbour is fairly active in the shipment of china-clay and in fishing. The breakwater and ample quays are due to the late Mr. Treffry. Mines anei quarries now deserted once added greatly to the place's activity. Pdtcl (2^ m. S.W. of Penzance) is now often called St. Paul, but the prefix, as always in Cornwall, is quite modern. The church stands on a steep hill overlooking Mount's Bay, and makes a good landmark ; it is Dec. with Perp. additions. Burnt by the Spanish in 1 595, none of the earlier woodwork remains; but much of the stonework survived the flames, and there are signs of clumsy reparation. In restoring the porch, about a century since, some charred woodwork was found. The tower is one of the loftiest in West Cornwall. Among other interesting monuments in the churchyard is the grave of Dolly Pentreath, whose epitaph is as follows : *' Here lyeth interred Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1778, said to have been the last person who con- versed in the ancient Cornish, the peculiar language of this county from the earliest records till it expired in the eighteenth century in this parish of St. Paul. This stone is erected by the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, in union with the Rev. John Garrett, Vicar of St. Paul, June, i860." This nephew of the great Napoleon was a keen student of language. But Borrow had been here before i860. In