There does not appear to be any thing demanding particular notice in this parish. The family of Erisey were seated here from remote antiquity, on a manor and barton of the same name. Mr. Lysons states that the mansion house was rebuilt about the year 1620; and that the family became extinct in 1722, when their estates passed with an heiress to Col. John West, and since by purchase to the Boscawens of Tregothnan. The advowson of the living belonged to the late Rev. William Robinson of Nanceloe. If the translation from Homer is by Mr. Hals himself, the lines prove him to be a very moderate poet; if they were from a work then before the public, we may congratulate ourselves that Pope has introduced the greatest of Bards into English society, arrayed in a more appropriate garb. Ιλιαδος, z. 440. Τηνδ’ αυτε προσεειπε μεγας κορυθαιολος Ἑκτωρ. Iliad, Book the 6th, l. 570. Yet come it will, the day decreed by Fates,―― How my heart trembles, while my tongue relates!―― The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end. And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind, My mother’s death, the ruin of my kind, Not Priam’s hoary hairs defil’d with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore; As thine, Andromache! This parish measures 2,325 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 845 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 140 12 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 142 | 167 | 187 | 162 giving an increase of 14 per cent. in 30 years, but with a diminution in the last ten years. Present Rector, the Rev. H. T. Coulson, presented by P. V. Robinson, esq. in 1828. THE GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. This parish is entirely situated on the serpentine of the Lizard district, but as it no where extends to the sea coast it is not favourable to geological pursuits. RUAN MINOR. HALS. Ruan Minor is also situate in the hundred of Kerryer, and hath upon the north Ruan Major, east St. Kevorne, west Grade, south the British Ocean or Channel. In the Domesday Book it was taxed under the jurisdiction of Lizard; and at the time of the first inquisition into the value of Cornish Benefices 1294, it was not endowed if extant. In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, it was valued at £4. 4_s._ 5_d._; the patronage formerly in the master of St. John’s Hospital at Sythney, or Carmenow of Carmenow, who endowed it, now Robinson; the incumbent ――――; and the parish rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax 1696, temp. William III. at £17. 11_s._ 2_d._