So when the Saint from Padua’s graceless land, In silent anguish sought the barren strand, High on the shatter’d beach sublime he stood, Still’d with his waving arm the babbling flood; “To man’s dull ear,” he cry’d, “I call in vain, Hear me, ye scaly tenants of the main!” Misshapen seals approach in circling flocks, In dusky mail the tortoise climbs the rocks, Torpedoes, sharks, rays, turbots, dolphins, pour Their twinkling squadrons round the glittering shore; With tangled fins, behind, huge phocæ glide, And whales, and grampi swell the distant tide. Then kneel’d the hoary Seer, to Heaven address’d His fiery eyes, and smote his sounding breast, “Bless ye the Lord!” with thundering voice he cry’d; “Bless ye the Lord!” the bending shores reply’d; The winds and waters caught the sacred word, And mingling echoes shouted, “Bless the Lord!” The listening shoals the quick contagion feel, Pant on the floods, inebriate with their zeal, Ope their wide jaws, and bow their slimy heads, And dash with frantic fins their foamy beds. The parish feasts do not serve in these parishes to indicate the patron saint. Anthony in Kerrier has its feast on the Sunday nearest St. Stephen’s day, December 26th. Anthony in Powder on the Sunday nearest to the 10th of August. Anthony in East has not any feast. The day consecrated to St. Anthony of Egypt is January the 17th; to St. Anthony of Padua June the 13th. The measurement of this parish is 571 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 1050 0 0 Poor Rates in 1831 108 15 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 163 | 157 | 179 | 144 Decrease on a hundred in thirty years 8.83, or somewhat less than nine per cent. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. St. Anthony is situated in the calcareous group of the slate formation, and is composed of a glossy blue and fine grained slate, which alternates with a coarse blue rock abounding in scales of mica, and is more or less lamellar according to its proportion of this mineral: this compact rock readily disintegrates, assuming various yellowish tints, and an arenaceous appearance; indeed, it is seldom seen but in that condition, and it has therefore been sometimes mistaken by geologists for a variety of sand-stone.