Pengelly in this parish was the residence, for many generations, of the Spernons or Sparnons. The family became extinct on the death of a gentleman in the medical profession at Lostwithiel, and the property was sold about fifty years ago. For an anecdote respecting newspapers and despatches, see the notice of Mr. Ralph Allan in St. Blazey. This parish contains 6456 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 8673 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 1293 15 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 2534 | 2888 | 3668 | 5149. 103 per cent. or 3 per cent. above doubled in 30 years. Present Vicar, the Rev. R. G. Grylls, presented by the King in 1809. GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. This extensive parish includes nearly the whole of that granitic patch known by the names of Tregonning and Godolphin Hills; and it also comprises the greater part of the country lying between those hills and those of the opposite range of granite in Wendron and Crowan, called the Forest. Its mines, quarries, and sea cliffs afford most interesting geological sections. The granite of Godolphin Hill is of the common kind, containing in several places an intermixture of shorl, and it is traversed by numerous thick veins of quartz, which sometimes pass into compact shorl rock. The granite of Tregonning Hill is of two kinds; one fine-grained like free-stone, which is extensively quarried on the western side of the hill, and used for ornamental building, under the name of Breage stone; the other, abounding in talc, and in a state of considerable decomposition, affording, like the similar granites of St. Austell and St. Stephen’s, the china clay, which is here worked for economical purposes, but not to any great extent. The western part of the celebrated mine Whele Vor is situated in Breage; and, as the workings approach the granite, they exhibit a highly interesting arrangement of rocks, the granite and slate alternating in the same manner as they have been observed to do at Delcoath in Cambourne. The composition of these rocks, and the nature of their connection, are very evidently seen in the heaps of fragments piled round the shafts; but they are better and more clearly illustrated in the cliffs near Trewaras Head. It would occupy two much space to enter into details on this important subject. It may, however, be noticed that both the granite and the slate gradually pass into each other; and that they appear to differ very little in their mineral composition. These facts seem to explain, in a satisfactory manner, the nature of granite veins. For, if both rocks have a similar composition, and have been produced at the same time, the form, position, contents, and other circumstances of these veins, are no longer perplexing. ST. BREWARD. HALS.