The ancient name of this parish, Minster, and the more recent one Manac-an, conspire to point it out as the locality of some religious establishment, since Manack is the Cornish word identical with Monk, and evidently from the same root, while an is the article, but although adjectives in all the Celtic dialects are placed after the substantive, yet the article regularly precedes it, and this inversion throws some doubt on the meaning of the compound word, more especially as not the slightest trace exists of any monastic institution within this parish in any authentic record, nor does tradition point out a spot where the foundation of a building can be perceived. There is not any thing worth remarking about the church; it is pleasantly situated, and surrounded by a neat church town. The vicarage house is good; it was honoured by the residence, during some years, of our distinguished poet, historian, and divine, the Rev. Richard Polwhele, till he resigned it for Newlyn, a better living, most properly bestowed on him by Dr. Carey, then Bishop of Exeter. The only other village of consequence in this parish is Helford, where is a passage across the river, of greater breadth than any other in Cornwall, and various branches of trade are conducted at this place. Kestell was formerly the seat of a family giving or deriving their name from this place; their arms, Or, three castles Gules, may still be seen over the entrance to the house. The property now belongs to Lemon of Carclew. Halvose was for many years the summer residence of Mr. Thomas Hawkins, of Helston; it belongs at present to the family of Grylls. This parish measures 1371 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 2711 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 213 7 0 Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 498 | 506 | 591 | 654 giving an increase of 31 per cent. in 30 years. The parish feast is kept on the nearest Sunday to the 14th of October. The Rev. Richard Polwhele was collated to the rectory of Manaccan by Bishop Buller in 1794. GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. The rocks of this parish are similar to those of the adjacent parish of St. Anthony, both being contained within the calcareous series. This little parish is however mineralogically celebrated for its streams containing a dark ferruginous sand, in which the metal titanium was discovered by the Rev. William Gregor, and, under the supposition of its being a new substance, received from him the name of Manaccanite. MARHAMCHURCH. HALS.