The town, lying on the back of a sharp ridge of land dividing two deep vallies, has great beauty of situation, and deserves in other respects the praises bestowed by Mr. Tonkin. To travellers, however, all the circumstances are quite different; the main street descending with the ridge is scarcely safe for carriages; and the great road from London through Truro to Falmouth, passing directly across the ridge, has to go up and then down through streets so steep and narrow, and in parts so turned, as to make the safe-passage of the mail-coach a matter of wonder; these defects have been, however, completely remedied by a road carried round the point and accommodated with a drawbridge; thus reducing the road to a level, and preserving the communication by water; this improvement was made about the year 1830. This parish measures 2,271 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 The Parish £.3951 0 0 } The Town 5117 0 0 } 9068 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831, The Parish 584 3 0 } The Town 1162 8 0 } 1746 11 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, The Parish { 624 | 714 | 745 | 969 The Town { 2324 | 2713 | 2933 | 3521 { -------+----------+----------+--------- { 2948 | 3427 | 3678 | 4490 giving an increase on the Parish of 55⅓, on the Town 51½, on both 52¼,――per cent. in 30 years. Present Vicar, the Rev. John Sheepshanks, collated by the Bishop of Exeter in 1824. THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The western side of this parish skirts along the boundary of the granite of Mabe; but it does not extend on this rock, with the exception of a small triangular space near Chywoon, at its northern corner. The rest of the parish lies on felspar rocks, both slaty and massive; some of which contain hornblende, whence it passes into green stone. These felspar rocks, when they are disintegrated, afford a soil which is covered with luxuriant vegetation, forming a striking contrast with the utter barrenness of the adjacent granite. GORAN. HALS.