Not intimately acquainted, one may presume, with the true history of the patroness they had selected to sanction their gaieties, the goddess Flora was made to preside over a foray, instituted, as some assert, before the Norman conquest, and in commemoration of a victory obtained over the Saxons, who had landed at a cove still called Perthsasnac; but the utter absurdity of the substitution, and the popularity given to the word FORAY by Sir Walter Scott’s Poems, have restored the ancient and true appellation. Causes similar to those which have retained the foray, have also kept up the practice of bowling; so that in Helston alone can one now see the principal gentlemen of the town assembled on the bowling-green, enjoying at once exercise, fresh air, and agreeable intercourse, free from any spirit of gambling and from the slightest indulgence of a habit more common and less excusable. The word faddy is used to express the dance, the air, or both, used in celebrating the foray; the origin of this term is quite unknown. The air is preserved by Edward Jones in his Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards. He has also printed some lines which were sung by the dancers; they are, however, so entirely devoid of sense, or even of antiquity, that I shall not transcribe them. The air is supposed to be a remnant of British music; one very like it, if not identically the same, has been found in Ireland, and according to report in Scotland. It may therefore be justly esteemed a curiosity. The measurement of Helston is included in Gwendron; and the value of Real Property is not distinguished in the returns to Parliament from the parish. The Poor Rates and Population have been given under Gwendron (Wendron), but they are here repeated. Poor Rate in 1831, £889. 17_s._ Population, {in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 2248 | 2297 | 2671 | 3293 giving an increase of 46½ per cent. in 30 years. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The northern part of this parish, approaching the granite of Wendron, is composed of felspar and hornblende rocks; the southern so much abounds in some parts with siliceous varieties of rock as to form barren downs, which stretch from Love Bar to the vicinity of Gweek. [5] “An old scholiast upon this passage proposes to read meritas; but says little in defence of his suggestion, beyond adverting to divers suicidal acts of the ultra Tories, as he calls them, which are said to have been perpetrated by them on various occasions.” ST. HILARY. Mr. Hals begins his account of this parish with a long history of the patron saint, including all the controversies or disputed points of doctrine in which he was engaged; all this, extending through many pages, is omitted. St. Hilary was born at Poictiers, in France, about the end of the third or the beginning of the fourth century.