This spot possesses further interest to a botanist by the production of some rare plants. The asparagus officinalis, the beta maritima, the carduus acoulis, rare in Cornwall, and some others. Doctor Borlase records some instances of great longevity in this parish, but such generally occur in all dry and unconfined districts, more especially when they are somewhat elevated above the ordinary level of alluvial countries. * * * * * A manufactory has been recently established for producing ornamented trifles from the beautifully coloured and variegated serpentine of this district, and with so much success that vases have been turned in lathes, exceeding a foot in height, and they hope to polish chimney-pieces on a large scale. LANDRAKE. HALS. The manuscript relating to this perish is lost. TONKIN. Landrake is situate in the hundred of East, and hath to the west St. Germans; to the north Quethiock; to the east Pillaton, Botus Fleming and St. Stephan’s; to the south St. Erney. This church, in A. D. 1291, the 20th Edward I., is valued at £4. 13_s._ 4_d._ being then appropriated to the Priory of St. Germans; the vicarage at £10. The vicarage is valued by Wolsey at £18. 12_s._ 4_d._ The patronage in Lord Hobart, as heir to Sir John Maynard. The manor of Lanrake, as the parish should also be written, is reckoned to be the very best in the county. It was valued in the 1st year of Edward I. at £100, which no other estate came up to but Sheviock and Pawton, which last however was valued at £120. THE EDITOR. There seems to be but little of importance connected with this parish. The extensive manor of Lanrake is said by Mr. Lysons to have belonged at an early period to the family of St. Margaret, and in the seventeenth century to have belonged to Sergeant Maynard, from whom it passed by marriage to the family of Hobart, and from that to Edgecumbe. This manor includes the advowson of the vicarage; and the impropriation of the great tithes belonged also to Sergeant Maynard, having been a part of the endowments taken from the Priory of St. Germans. The church town is rather a large village, and the church and tower are of the form and size common throughout Cornwall. The church contains several monuments. In this parish is another village, called Wotton Cross, and part of a third called Tidiford, where a small river, navigable for barges, and communicating with the Tamar at Hamoaze, divides Landrake from St. Germans. The facility of water communication has established some trade at Tidiford, but it is chiefly remarkable by the great quantities of Plymouth limestone burnt there for manure.