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 PORTHLEVEN— POUGHILL health and happiness of a greater number. The shipping done by these tiny ports is very little — some small coasting and some shipment of slate from Delabole ; the rail has taken their business, such as it may once have been. Port Isaac can claim antiquity as well as beauty. Its pier was built in the reign of Henry VIII. Port Isaac must not be taken for a dedication to any St. Isaac ; it is almost certainly portli izir, the "corn port". The parish is that of Endellion. PortincUin (about 6 m. S. of St. Austell) has traces of an old entrenchment ; near also was the mansion of the Bodrigans, of which few remains survive. Sir Henry Bodrigan was attainted for siding with Richard III. against Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., and this enabled his unfriendly neighbours, Trevanion and Edgcumbe, to prosecute their own feud with vigour. It is said that in flying from these vindictive and triumphant foes Bodrigan leaped into the sea from a spot still known as "Bodrigan's Leap". He was rescued by a vessel, and escaped to France. There is a sub- merged forest of elder trees in Portmellin Bay. Portreath (4. m. N.W. of Redruth), formerly named Basset's Cove, is a busy little harbour and watering-place, much liked by Redruth fblk. A good deal of coal arrives here by ship to supply the mines. Tehidy Park is an old seat of the Bassets. There is a clifF-castle near. On the sands seals may often be met with. Pougliill (li m. N.E. of Bude) is pro- nounced Puffill ; the curious name has been