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 CORNWALL Davy, born at Penzance in 1778. The town has also memories of the boyhood of Pellew, Lord Exmouth, and of Davies Gilbert, sometime President of the Royal Society. Besides the local vegetable produce, and the flowers from Scilly, the train from Penzance carries to the great markets a vast quantity of fish. (See Fisheries.) Perranarworthal (about i m. from Perran- well Station) is a romantic little village in a district notable for its water-mills. The small church, restored, is dedicated to St. Pcrran or Piran, who deserves to be called the St. Patrick of Cornwall, for the place which he formerly filled in the popular imagination. In spite of this some have doubted that he was ever in Cornwall at all. His holy well, giving its name to the village of Perranwell in this parish, has disappeared, having been accidentally drained by mining operations. Piran is really the Irish Kieran of Saighir, the Goidelic K naturally becoming the Brythonic P. (See Perranzabuloe.) PermtiutJmoe (2 m. E. of Marazion Station) was named Lanudno in the taxation of Pope Nicholas, and this would seem to point to some dedication or appellation earlier than that of Perran. It is believed that from a chapel at Goldsithney was brought the granite figure of St. James, now over the keystone of the S. doorway of Perranuthnoe Church. This figure, however, does not appear to be older than the fifteenth century. The church has a good Perp. tower, but its S. transept is clearly much earlier. 212