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 CORNWALL common to Cornwall. Over the porch is an inscription which has been interpreted as ^y du, " give to God ". The town can also boast of an admirable town-hall and market-place. The main source of its present prosperity is the china-clay industry. This clay is a kind of moist or softened granite, identical with the Chinese kaolin ; its value was discovered by a Plymouth Quaker, W. Cookworthy, in 176H. The output of china-clay and china- stone from Cornwall in the year 1900 (556,251 tons) shows an increase. The produce of the St. Austell district is shipped at the little ports of Polmear and Charlestown, 2 miles distant. Carclaze Mine, formerly worked for tin and now for this china-clay, well deserves a visit. Ba$U or Trehasil (about 5 m. S.W. of Launceston), now a farm, was formerly the seat of the Trevelyans. Their antiquity is proved by the legend that one of them saved himself on horseback when the ancient land of Lyonesse was submerged by the waves. Another of the family, besieged for debt by the sheriff's men, dispersed these by scattering beehives among them. A well here is known as St. Basil's, with traces of a chapel. Bedruthaii, formerly spelt Bodruthan (about 7 m. E. of Newquay by the cliffs, but 9 m. by carriage-road through Mawgan), will well repay the difficulty of reaching it. All the grandeur of the North Cornwall coast is here to be seen; but the caves can only be properly inspected at low tide. It is truly a superb bit of scenery, 60