Lambesso belonged to the Tredenhams, but for some time past to the Footes. THE EDITOR. Polwhele has descended from the gentleman who served the office of sheriff in 1723, to his grandson, the Rev. Richard Polwhele, author of a history of Cornwall, and so distinguished by his works in every department of literature; by his early poetical effusions, when “He lisp’d in numbers for the numbers came;” by those of his maturer age; by sermons equally sound in learning and in diction, and persuasive by their eloquence; that no Cornishman of the present day can presume to place himself, I will not say in competition, but in the same class of literary excellence with Mr. Polwhele. At Penhellick, about seventy years ago, the Rev. John Collins, rector of Redruth, built a house for his own residence after removing to the village; he is reported to have selected this spot in consequence of several persons residing in it having attained great ages. On his decease, the house and lands were sold to a Colonel Macarmicke, originally a wine merchant at Truro, who much enlarged the house, and endeavoured to affix some fanciful new name on the place. The property has since passed through various hands, and the house has generally been unoccupied. This parish contains 3156 statute acres. The annual value of Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 7027 0 0 The Poor Rate in 1831 1100 3 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 1342 | 1692 | 2306 | 2885; giving an increase of 115 per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The rocks are not much exposed in this parish. In the southern part they consist of glossy slates, which break into thick lameller leaves, and they appear to belong to the calcareous series. [31] Their son Henry married Jane, the only daughter of Jacob Jackson, of Truro; and their son and heir, John Foote, married a daughter of Sir Edward Goodere, member for the county of Hereford, and sister of the unfortunate Sir John Dineley Goodere, and Captain Goodere. Their son was the celebrated Samuel Foote, called in his time the English Aristophanes. [32] Admiral Carthew Reynolds built a good house here in the latter part of the last century. He was considered to be an excellent officer and a skilful seaman; yet he lost his life when a ninety-gun ship, under his command, was first injured by some other vessel, and then driven on the flat sands near the entrance of the Baltic in the winter 1811-12. COLAN, OR LITTLE COLAN. HALS. Is situate in the hundred of Pider, and hath upon the north, Maugan; east, St. Colomb Major; south, St. Enedor; west, Lower St. Columb.