[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. EXCURSION II. TO THE LAND's END.--LOGAN ROCK, &c. "The Sun beams tremble, and the purple light Illumes the dark Bolerium;--seat of storms, High are his granite rocks; his frowning brow Hangs o'er the smiling ocean. In his caves, Where sleep the haggard spirits of the storm, Wild dreary are the schistose rocks around, Encircled by the waves, where to the breeze The haggard cormorant shrieks; and far beyond Are seen the cloud-like islands, grey in mists." _Sir H. Davy._ In an excursion to the _Land's End_ the traveller will meet with several intermediate objects well worthy his attention, more worthy, perhaps, than the celebrated promontory itself, as being monuments of the highest antiquity in the kingdom. They consist of _Druidical circles_, _Cairns_, or circular heaps of stones, _Cromlechs_, _Crosses_, _Military Entrenchments_, and the obscure remains of _Castles_. Many of these venerable objects, however, to the eternal disgrace of the inhabitants be it spoken, have of late been much mutilated, and indeed some have been entirely demolished. That the noblest monuments of Greece should have been converted into lime by the barbarous Turks, or that the temple of Diana should have furnished a cement for the voluptuous apartments of the Haram, are instances of degeneracy which we might have been prepared to witness in such a people; but that the venerable remains of British antiquity, the silent but faithful monuments of men and days long past, which are so interesting from their connection with the primitive history of our island, should in this enlightened age have been sawed into gate posts, or converted into pig-troughs, is really past all endurance.--But to proceed.--In riding from Penzance to the Land's End, which is about ten miles distant, the first objects to be noticed are two beautiful villas, well wooded, and adjoining each other,--_Castle-Horneck_, the seat of the Borlase family, and _Rose Hill_, the property of the Rev. Uriah Tonkin. The sea and land views from these houses are of the most enchanting description.