Urns.
effectual fluxes # metals g ^*;Cormfh node*: W ° jT
ing the pottery-ware, w W inttodiating the porcelain or deli*
manufacture; a defign of this nature, • animated by ^few people ol
rank, from its own apparent and neceffary confequemees, would foon
make its way into 'the approbation and patronage of every man of
oputericy and publick fpirit, and would be a fure method of making
the people more induftrious, flourifhing, and happy. But to encourage
and promote Ms moft efledually m a country at foch a
diftance as Cornwall is from the great centre of power and riches,
nothing can contribute more, than that gentlemen df fortune and
rank generally refide at their paternal feats, build, plant, and improve
barren grouhds, enforce juftice, ftimulate lnduftry, excite
emulation, reconcile difputes, and lead forth now and then into the
reach of favour and reward latent merit; filch occupations m theie
might well become the time and attention of thofe of the higheit
rank, and the moft affluent fortune; they are rational and generous,
diffiifive of plenty and happinefs, m the place which has the
firft right (the right of birth) to our affections; they endear and
hold faff the dependants of the gentry, preferve and advance them
patrimonies, and need not in the lesft clafh with or interrupt their
more folemn duties to the Church and to the State.
C H A P. ^XVII.,
Antiquities which have occurred Ut OohmaU- * ?& *
PL A T E xxix. Fig. i. page 298, is part of a curious urn; the
anfa folid; the clay fine, well burnt j neatly ornamented, with
double/ftraight lifts round t h e edge aftd bandle, and wavy lifts an
the tides; colour cinerous; the fhell three eighths of an inch thick.
It was found under a large barrow or heap of ftones, at Kara, m
the parifli of Morvah, 1754.
Ffe. n. ibid. A plain urn, inclofing human bones, found in Mr.
T. Smith’s garden in Newfort, in the ifle of St. Mary s, Scillyrit
flood upon the natural clay, indofed in a vault form feet fix inches
long, two feet three inches wide, about one foot three inches deep;
the tides of the vault were faced with ftene, its covering, flat ftones;
the run of the vault N. N. E. This is inferred as foe only one
yet difeovered in the ifles of Scilly, to fhew that thefe Iflandars had
the fame Way of burning the dead, and prefervmg what the fare
left unconfirmed, as other ancient nations. . ,
Fig. v. and vi. are two gcrld-coins found at Karp-breh in the
year 1749, with thofe publiflied in the Antiquities of Cornwall,
Coins.
preffion d i% e i^ jcqcfpd^^p jtiipe and.ufe,; may, by being exhibited
in both, tend tojhefr expla^tipm.- I cap fay nothing deqifive
as. to the fymhpls, .but; I copje^upp; fhgt convex tide there
is the rude, figure <■>£ a, fhip uqith t^o ma/ls/apd the fails fpreadj
on the convex, j|pns a representation of the terraqueous globe, ea-
compaffed in th^piddfo with a zope w^./W-hich divides the upper
from the under hpinifpW^iJn tlaq, upper hemiiphefé are placed
thf fun ^id mpqpj,, in thepnder, the, leffer- jpminanf«,' ~ 1 <
'Fig, vii. and v i^ ih id ^ a if tpyo different 1^4^ from any already
pubdifhed ip plate xi^., of the Antiquities of Cornwall, page 242:
the.faces ar«^ bpld„ and not inexpreftiveA turped different ways; the
reverfes are yharged, with horfes apd wheels tjn thé fame ftyle as'
rpoft of tiS£$S,already.pufdifoed.
Fig, ij£. ibid. is not ap,ill fopcied hepd;- $hh 'djficfom and'its
clafp very diftinCt apd upiforpily fet, and the, fobipg of tiie fhoulder
plain apd ipdifp^tpbfe- In tfie- ^eyerfè,, $8 body- jpf the horfe is
remarkably {lender, the engraver* as I apprehend, feeipg piore'intept
to exprefs the expedition pud fwiftnefs^’ than thé natural fhape apd
proportion of tiiq creature. T,he coins ?ape their real’, fizf; and
fhape. I have oplyjto. o b fe y^ that BouteKijfo’s cofes pf the apetent
Gauls have neither the weight nqr true /frapp exprpffed, bepaufe
either worn with ufe,. or rpft (fays he, ibid-
Introd. page 40^4 All publifhed py him o f this kind have plain
legends, except B, page d5v wfeijh however ?on the rey^fe has feme-
thing like the letters m a *, They cap giiye Jittfe aid therefore towards
explaining this treafpre of Britifli antiquity found in Cornwall
; but if ope can make ppy c^t^jn popclptiQp frptp epinj printed
in fuch p manner, it muft 'be that they, were ifruek by a people
well acquainted with {he^jQt?eks or Rotnans; they favour.'nothing
o f thfi antiquity, rudenefs, and fimplicity of thofe pf Katfibrêfa.
•Fig. X. ibid, is the .little peteril ör ftorn^fedb ^, :Whibh tfeasflMwn
by the late Mr, Jggo befoteT-mendioned, -Chaplain qfJj^o(d> Of tjhis
bird, rarely found on the Engjifbt
pendix to bjs Nat. Hift. of-Carolina, ^ c .fp a g e and tabvï4)>"givies
us -die following account; q The ftorpa-foieh pf pittrel,- ’is about
the fisze of a eba^oeh» the-whidle bird, except the rump, (which
is white) ,is' of a dufky, brown.jGolour, the,h a ck ’being fotSewhdt
darker than the belly; the bill is half an inch long., ffender, dafk-
brown, and crooked at the ,?nd£ by o|^iingvi^t'&&& " 0 •'$$&•.
thefe birds, I found that the: ndprils cptdifted of two parallel tubes^
proceeding from within the head, and juPliing half way--^.opg the
upper mandible of the bill, forming thereon a protuberance; the
* The bird menti<w*4 before> Itmaafag. and referred-to . the explan^ition of this plate. -7%
wings