| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 1050 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rates in 1831 | 108 | 15 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 163 | in 1811, 157 | in 1821, 179 | in 1831 144. |
Decrease on a hundred in thirty years 8.83, or somewhat less than nine per cent.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
St. Anthony is situated in the calcareous group of the slate formation, and is composed of a glossy blue and fine grained slate, which alternates with a coarse blue rock abounding in scales of mica, and is more or less lamellar according to its proportion of this mineral: this compact rock readily disintegrates, assuming various yellowish tints, and an arenaceous appearance; indeed, it is seldom seen but in that condition, and it has therefore been sometimes mistaken by geologists for a variety of sand-stone.
At Porth there is a narrow neck of land, on the upper part of which lies a sandbank abounding in perfect shells, which are arranged in layers, and appear similar to those of the adjacent beach. This bank is at least thirty
feet above high water-mark, and it is covered with a stratum of earth in cultivation. The sand is silicious, and becomes in the lower part intermixed with pebbles, resembling in this respect the banks on the shores of Mount’s Bay. This affords an example of an ancient beach elevated above the one now in existence. The whole coast of Cornwall furnishes numerous instances of this occurrence, and the former beach is uniformly at the same elevation above that actually in existence, indicating that the sea must, at some former period, have joined the land at a line now higher than the present beach by that difference.
ST. ANTHONY IN EAST.
HALS.