FOOTNOTES:
[24] This Pier has lately been considerably enlarged at the expense of Sir John St. Aubyn. The work was completed only in the last Summer (1823), and will now admit vessels of five hundred tons burthen.
[25] Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol. i. p. 41.
[26] Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol. ii. p. 73.
[27] Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol. ii. p. 369.
[28] See Mr. Phillips's "Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy." We shall on all occasions refer to this work without reserve, as being a book which is, or ought to be, in the hands of every scientific traveller. Its copious catalogue of English habitats renders it extremely valuable.
[29] The mineralogist is apt to overlook these Topazes, or to regard them as common quartz crystals, to which they bear a great resemblance, until we inspect their prisms, which will rarely be found to be six-sided; there is also another simple mark of distinction—in the quartz crystal the striated appearance on its surface is horizontal, whereas on the Topaz it is longitudinal.
[30] A Drift is a trench or foss, cut in the ground to a certain depth, resembling a channel dug to convey water to a mill wheel.
[31] Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol. ii. p. 56.
[32] Ancestor of William Arundel Harris Arundel, Esq. of Kenegie.
[33] "Firmam nrtsm sti michis ad montem in dco nro cornub ac tot illum scit domu mansional sive capital messuag nrm vocat Sainte Michaells Mounte als dict the Priorie of Sainte Michalls Mounte in dco com nso cornub quondm menastr de Sion in com nro midd spectan & ptinen habendum & tenendum ad tmnm & pr tmno vite natural ipsius Arthuri Harris. Reddendo inde annuatim nob hered & successoribs nris viginti sex libras tres decem solid et quatuor denar legalis monete Angel." &c.
[34] See Sir C. Hawkins's Tract on the Tin Trade of the ancients in Cornwall, and on the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus.