’As in Polpluggan, as you rightly observe, to examine the line between Meshaw and that mountain in the east, Sheepstor. Mr. Trampleasure is not as sanguine in this matter as I am. He is hard to be convinced even now; I am not sure that his faith is firm. Whilst we were discussing the nature of the land between Meshaw and Sheepstor—he resolutely refused to explore the red sandstone and clay land, maintaining that gold is never found except in the proximity of granite—he told me of a farm of yours called Ophir.’ ’Ophir!’ exclaimed the old gentleman; ’I have no such farm.’ ’Excuse me,’ said Mr. Flamank: ’you have, and I have been over it myself, exploring the ground for gold.’ ’I believe you call the place Upaver,’ said Tramplara, with a twinkle in his eye, which watched the Squire intently. ’Upaver! You have not been hunting up my silver lead mine, have you?’ ’Silver lead, no!’ answered the pastor; ’we have been hunting for gold.’ ’But this is stark nonsense,’ exclaimed Mr. Battishill; ’the place never was called Ophir. It is, and always has been, Upaver.’ ’Upaver and Ophir are all the same, just as Sheepstor is the same as Sephar. I asked the farmer the name of the place, and without hesitation he said that he minded in old times it was called Ophir, but that the maps spell it with an _U_.’ ’He has not been fifteen years on the farm, and I have been here seventy.’ ’He has heard from the oldest inhabitant.’ ’I am the oldest inhabitant,’ protested Mr. Battishill. ’I can show you, moreover, leases of a hundred and two hundred years ago, in which it is called Upaver.’ ’The leases were drawn up by lawyers ignorant of the pronunciation of the name. What the farmer told me was confirmed by another man, an old wild-looking creature, almost a savage. He also said the place wras called Ophir, and he clenched his statement with a dreadful imprecation on all those who called it otherwise. What is more, he showed me a silver coin he had found, and I bought it of him for five shillings. If you will examine it, you will see Hebrew characters on it. I have seen this coin figured in Commentaries on the Bible; on the obverse a vase, the pot of manna, I presume, on the reverse a flower, Aaron’s blooming rod. It is a shekel. Now I ask you, how came a shekel to be found at Ophir unless the Israelites had been there to drop it?’ Mr. Battishill took the coin, and turned it over in his hand. He was puzzled. ’That man you describe is old Grizzly Cobbledick, who lives under the Giant’s Table.’ ’I have seen the Giant’s Table. It is an Israelitish monument, a Gilgal. There are many such in Cornwall, as well as upright stones—the same that Jacob set up and anointed with oil.’