[36] We insert the following facts collected by _Dr. Paris_, from the first volume of the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall--"The total quantity of Granite shipped at Falmouth during the last seven years, amounts to _Forty Thousand Tons_. It has been employed for building the Docks at Chatham, and the Waterloo Bridge in London. The lands in the vicinity of Penhryn have furnished it; indeed the quantity actually quarried has been considerably greater, for many of the blocks, in consequence of being damaged, have been condemned and sold at a low price to the inhabitants for building, and other purposes. The number of men generally employed in quarrying it is about four hundred; their wages from twelve to eighteen shillings per week, varying with the quantity raised. The lord of the soil receives one halfpenny a foot for all that is quarried; the freight during war was as high as 25 shillings per ton, at present it is only 16s. Fourteen cubic feet weigh one ton. The weight of the blocks generally varies, from five _cwt._ to seven tons." [37] It is not more than three hundred years since the art of husbandry was first introduced. The lands were formerly all in common, and the inhabitants being wholly engaged in the mines, actually let out their pastures to the graziers of Devon, by whom they were in return supplied with cattle and corn. [38] _Church-Town._ This expression is peculiar to Cornwall--the fact is, that since many market, and even Borough towns are _without_ a church, the Cornish dignify those that have it with the title of _Church-town_. [39] We take this opportunity to state, that the annual revenue of the Long-ships light-house is about three thousand pounds. Every British vessel that passes pays a halfpenny per ton;--every foreign vessel pays one shilling, without reference to its tonnage. [40] It is a curious fact that the whole or part of this rock is _Lime stone_. [41] Vessels passing this light pay the same dues as those received by the Long-ships, except in the case of coasting vessels, which pay, not according to their tonnage, but simply a shilling per vessel. [42] One half of the inhabitants of St. Agnes are named _Hicks_; one quarter of those of Trescow, and a third of those at Bryher are called _Jenkins_; and a half of St. Martin's is divided between _Ellis_ and _Ashford_. [43] See "A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands; exhibiting their vast importance to the British Empire, the Improvements of which they are susceptible, and a particular account of the means lately adopted for ameliorating the condition of the Inhabitants, by the establishment and extension of their Fisheries. By the Rev. George Woodley, Missionary from the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge; and Minister of St. Agnes, and St. Martin's." _8vo. pp. 344. London, 1822._