inferted die feats of fetch gentlemen as e-jcprofibd th^i-r^defire 4oh&ve them -engraved
■, the fronts were all-meafered, and (which has not, i apprehen^^iseenijiet
'dom! in fueh!.colfelrimsJ:ai printed by thelameficde^;{itaibe'appiiiedtothe'sft^lfs
only) except two, wbofe owners- chqfe: to .fraveitheir feoiafes lets, ikat more of
the adjoining country and: their pyvn plantations, might be inferigdi;m®or Jthde
plates I am obliged to the Proprietors.
In the other plates, the fubysëts engraved" are either o? “the. .patyrjaf fize, or
by a fcale annexed in the lame plate; for want of which r^gujatipn, gre^tvobfeq.-
rityhas attended die engravings of feme of dig i n o f t ' . c e l e b r a ^ d .W-WR
filh and birds; cattie and foffils, are reprefented without due relation to .the fize
erf" one another. The Subjedts engraved: are “nöt ‘Mways new; büt the 'drawings
were made from nature, ajid, may be of fervice upon many occaljpps, yvfrere
authors who have gone before, either could not therpfelyes delineate, or "had
no opportunity of feeing die natural fubjedts,,apd were_ohlig.e4 to make-drawings
after relations, and the hafty lketches o f‘others.
Not always aiming at what is new, much left at what is marvellous, the
Author contents himfclf with foithfoUy-reprefenting -die^ nafriral bodies which
came . under fris examination, as, the bell method.*>o£ adding his~ mite to
Natural Knowledge, and of making feme advanee% ;fure perhaps, though
not many. ~
In tfre a^ggpl o f Fqffl? Imay feem, tedious and tqp rHjigute,^) dapfes who
have no proporfity to fi^ ftu d ie s, but Ifê
diftinguilhing products of our County, and to. thofe who are fenfibfe of what ufo
it is to have tfrefe bodies critically charafS^fcd,LI.ygipt I may. ^a^-appear.to®
fhort and unferisfa&ory.
As our birds, aiid plants, and quadrupeds caunqt bei f^pofed.tebetveiy diff-:
ferent from thofe of the other parts of England; and. have moldy beent deferibed:
before, they take up lefs time of the Reader here.
A f e w pages of the book which, followsd were publilhed in the Philbfophical
Tranfadrions of the Royal Society, but they were always intended' as parts' 6f
this Work, detached indeed and fent before, though not irrevocably-given up by
the author, and as difperfed fragments (unlefs I am mifinformed) I had a right
to revife, and re-unite them.
c The Scale is only affixed to the firft hpufe, nilh cryftals; a thunder-ftorm in the pariflï of
viz. Plate iy.-page 51. Gulval; and the agitation of the'-Sea, on the firft
* Treadle of die origin and properties of Cor- of November, 1755.
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Be s ide s/ihefe repetitions of prior obfervarions-, there are doubtlefs mfrny mif-
takes - and faults, as well as -errors of tfre prefs.' I fhall be willing .to acknow=-
le'dge the former; and from the animadversions of the more knowing, expedt
the pleafure of becoming better informed. I print a lift of the latter, asfarias
rfroft impartial revilM :cduy..;difcOvef«y{i '
It could not be otherwife than that feveral particulars Of the following WOtk Local obfer-
fliould relate only to Cornwall, ’ and are o f little importance to the-generality -0f va£ions-
-the worlds hu|i:riiofe dmimft^ices, Wfafoh Ef r nf e dhbi i l k df-mAnkiad,
die Reader will bfe fodgood-aS ito' coilfi*,’-'rhay claim the : tMoW th’dli£frts
•from die inhabitants of thfcCounty, and1 to ifriif ferule only; he Will be cehtedt
that they Should be coMgned;
In thfe ilefcriptive part, I hate beeri?g|^tly hhligsd I to die Sfiifgy' of (dcirih
wall, . ptebtilfred' in the year. t6h^- by RfeMfd fef Eaft &Mibhy,; ill
Cornwall, Efqj who to the llobii'ty M M SH 8fe - ipaliBfeatidtis
of the gentleman, fcholar, and chriftian.:. hi^jfoaifp,;apprehehfion; .*aridJN'lirong
fenfe, left few topicks „ un^smiined, many, fos thp/knowleldge'of his rim»,
well noticed; ’
%jjwquld have, been ungenerous to Ms-memory, as welkas diftreffing^and im?
p o v e r iih ^ T T ^ ^ ^ e ^m T ^ ^ ^ ^ eW e f f his work/ fho’ he 'is. neither iflavifofrt
jeopied, ,Or ever madsfr^fe of witboa^^fe^rledgmpnt. Mr. Scaweris M S ’.v&-
lating to Cornwall I am alfo 'ebHgedto; ef^eclally with regard to the Cornith
Language. :
T he geography of Rivers, Harbours, and Creeks', I found extremely deficient j
I amtherefore the more particulaf in tracing their coprCes and name's,' in which
the Itinerary of Leland has affifted me.
‘‘ I lmV& added a Map, not to travel by, or with an intent to c'Orredi the
Maps already publilhed, .(.of -which Martin’s hag beenlofr moft ofe ferime) this!' {
muft be done by better .hands; hut purely for the. fervice of thofe who-will read
the Andquities^and Natural Hiftory of Cornwall. I
For feveral informations r^the above mentioned paidcillars, I have beerf d®
liged tofoifre gentlemen nowhMng, and for thaf 'reafoft, fhave rrlentioiied them
only in thofe parts of the work, concerning which they were lb gOod as to communicate
their Obfervarions.
In thes. following work then, if the 'Reader fhall mifs any entertainment which
he might exped, he will perhaps meet with notfriflg partial, a (fuming, or offenfive.