_Penrice_, which is only two miles south of St. Austell, is an antient mansion, but has lately undergone a complete modernization by the proprietor, Joseph Sawle Sawle, Esq.: it contains a few good family portraits. The ride from St. Austell to Mevagissey, a distance of six miles, is very pleasing. The opening bay of the sea is a striking feature, and bursts suddenly upon the traveller at a place called Portuan, within two miles of Mevagissey. As a fishing town, MEVAGISSEY ranks before any other in the county. It has a spacious _Harbour_; and the town, having very narrow streets, is chiefly built in a bottom; but has an imposing appearance when viewed from the neighbouring heights, with the beautiful mansion and plantations of Helegan forming the back ground. The _Church_ is a small edifice, standing at the north-east entrance of the town; but the tower has not been rebuilt, since it fell down a few years back. The interior contains a handsome monument, with effigies of the deceased, erected to the memory of Otwell Hill, Esq., and his wife, who died in 1614, with the following curious inscription: Stock Lancashire, birth London, Cornwall gave To Otwell Hill inheritance and grave, Frank, frugal, pleasant, sober, stout, and kind, Of worde true, just in deede, men did him finde. Two Raigns he served a justice of the Peace, Belov’d he liv’d and godly did decease, Mary his Wife, to overlive him lothe, This Monument hath raised to them both. Mevagissey contains near 400 houses, and according to the late census, 2450 inhabitants. About two miles from the town, is _Helegan_, the seat of the Rev. Henry Hawkins Tremayne, a very elegant and substantial residence, most beautifully situated and embellished with fine gardens and shrubberies, and when perfectly finished, will be as handsome a residence as any in the county. The present liberal proprietor possesses great taste, and is daily improving the grounds, &c. The walk to the _Battery_ close to the sea is really delightful, and the woody plantations add greatly to the beauty of this residence. _Caerhays_, the seat of John Bettesworth Trevanion, Esq. Lieutenant Colonel in the Cornish Militia, is another beautiful mansion of a castellated form, lately rebuilt at a very considerable expense from designs of that eminent architect Nash.