For the purpose of keeping up this custom, he bequeathed some freehold lands, which are vested in the officiating minister, the mayor, and the collector of the port of Saint Ives, who are allowed Ten Pounds for a dinner. The first celebration of these _Quinquennial rites_ excited, as may easily be supposed, very considerable interest throughout the western parts of the county. "No tongue was mute, nor foot was still, But _One and All_[76] were on the hill, In chorus round the tomb of Knill." The report which was drawn up at the time by an eye witness of these festivities, exhibits such an admirable specimen of the _mock Heroic_, that we feel assured that the tourist will thank us for having given insertion to it in the Appendix. Pursuing the road along the cliff we pass _Lelant_ church, and arrive at the river _Hayle_, which takes its rise near Crowan, and falls into Saint Ives Bay; although it arrives at the level of the sea three miles before it reaches the northern coast, and winds its way through an area of sand, nearly half a mile wide, and more than two miles long; this sand, at high water, is generally submerged, so that the traveller who wishes to cross is obliged to take a circuitous route over the bridge at _Saint Erth_; but upon the ebbing of the tide, it soon becomes fordable, and may be passed over even by foot passengers. It is a curious circumstance that at twelve o'clock at noon, and at midnight, it is _always_ fordable; this apparent paradox is solved by knowing, that at _Spring tides_ it is always low water at these hours, and that the _Neap tides_ never rise sufficiently high to impede the passage. The Port of Hayle is situated on the eastern side of the river, where a great trade is carried on with Wales for timber, coals,[77] iron, and limestone; and with Bristol, for earthen-ware, groceries, &c. It is also one of the principal places of export for the copper ore of the western mines. In the former edition of this work we described the processes by which the _smelting_ and _refining_ of Copper were conducted at this place, but as it was acknowledged to be much cheaper to carry the ore to the coal, than to bring the coal to the ore, the proprieters found themselves compelled to abandon the speculation. The buildings in the neighbourhood, however, still continue as memorials of the former existence of such works, having been constructed with square masses of the _scoria_,[78] which had been cast into moulds for such purposes, as it issued from the furnace. In the museum of the Geological Society at Penzance the stranger may see an interesting model of this _Copper House_, and of the furnaces employed in the reduction of the ore.