The manor of Penwerris, become of great value by its proximity to Falmouth, is the property of Lord de Dunstanville, derived from his grandmother Mary Pendarves of Roscrow. The best part of Falmouth itself is now built on this property, and distinguished by the name of Green Bank. Budock measures 3507 statute acres. The annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 8618 0 0 The Poor Rate in 1832 640 8 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 779 | 1514 | 1634 | 1797; being an increase on an hundred of 131 per cent. The parish feast is celebrated on the Sunday before Advent. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The extreme western part, adjoining Mabe, consists of granite of a very crystalline variety, and excellent for building; it is exported in great quantities from Penryn. Nearly the whole western half of the parish is coarse; but the eastern part is well cultivated. The soil rests on a species of hornblend slate, which furnishes deep soil by its decomposition. On the sea shore at Swanpool a most interesting phenomenon occurs in a bed of felspar porphyry, (elvan course,) which runs north-east and south-west for several hundred feet: near low water it exhibits that appearance called by the miners a heave. The course terminates abruptly, and begins again about twenty feet further to the south, from whence it goes on as before the heave. This porphyry is decomposed at the surface and to some depth, into a fine white clay, from which bricks of a good quality are made on the spot. BURIAN. HALS. Burian is situated at the western extremity of the county, having two adjoining parishes, Senner and St. Levan annexed; the former of which includes the Lands’ End. In Domesday tax this district was rated by the name of Beriand, for Berian or Bury-an; synonymous words, signifying a cemetery or burying place for human creatures; that is to say, that place which is now called the churchyard, which was an inclosure, as in most other places, converted to that use before and since the church was erected therein. This instance of a Domesday Roll, wherein this district is named Beri-an, overthrows the story of Camden’s conjecture, that the name thereof was derived from one St. Buryana, an Irishwoman that was the tutelar guardian of this church, whereas the appellation of Saint, as I have elsewhere observed, at that time was not given to but one church in Cornwall. Besides, this Irish saint is not to be found in the Roman legend, or calendar, nor in Capgrave’s catalogue of English and Irish Saints.