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 341 in Drew's History of Cornwall, (vol. 1. p. 227), quoting Daines Barrington, it is said, "she does indeed talk Cornish as readily as others do English, being bred up from a child to know no other language ; nor could she (if we may believe her) talk a word of English before she was past twenty years of age. '^ Others who succeeded Dolly, although they could con- verse in Cornish more or less perfectly, yet they were born and brought up as children to speak English, Thus, after all, Dolly Pentreath was the last known person whose mother tongue was Cornish, and who knew no other language till she was a grown woman.^ "Uncle Jan Trenoodle," 184(5, (by Wm. Sandys, F. S, A.,) and which is the same portrait as that in " Recreations iu Rhyme,'' by John Trenhaile, published in 1854. See Biblioth. Cornitb. Polwhele says that " in the Universal Magazine, (if I am rightly informed) there is no bad likeness of old Dolly 'as engraved by K,. Scaddon."
 * Dolly Pentreath's portrait on the frontis-piece, is a true copy of the one in