Excursions in the County of Cornwall / Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of Curiosity

by Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale

Proclaim her dictates to th’ admiring world.

No more shall accents nervous, bold and strong

Flow in full periods from his patriot tongue.

Yet shall th’ historic and poetic page,

Thy name, great Shade, devolve from Age to Age;

Thine and thy Country’s fate, congenial tell,

By thee she triumph’d, and by thee she fell.”—

On a commanding eminence, a short distance from the house, stands an elegant-proportioned obelisk, 123 feet in height, with the following inscription carved on the pedestal.

In gratitude and Affection

To the Memory of