The Dean and Chapter of Exeter have the great tithes, and they are patrons of the vicarage; and, what is perhaps without example in reference to so fluctuating a body, three successive vicars have stood in near relationship to each other. The Reverend Mr. Mills was succeeded by his son-in-law the Rev. Jeremiah Trist, and Mr. Trist by his son, the Rev. S. P. J. Trist, who was instituted in 1829. The net income of the benefice in 1831 was £339. In the charter of William Earl of Morton, founding his priory of Montacute, among the endowments is the following: “Et in Cornubia Ecclesiam de Lerky,” which cannot be any other than Veryan, by its original name. * * * * * The late Mr. Trist built a very excellent house on his own land adjoining to the glebe. Veryan measures 4864 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 6625 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 1255 12 0 Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 1007 | 1082 | 1421 | 1525 giving an increase of 51½ per cent. in 30 years. THE GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. This extensive and interesting parish is entirely situated within the boundaries of the calcareous series. The prevailing rock is a blue argillaceous slate, the surface of which, when perfect, is either glossy and irridescent, or finely striated: it alternates with several kinds of massive or coarsely lamellar rocks, into which it gradually passes. These rocks present the following varieties: a fine grained rock abounding in scales of mica; a variety of greenstone or cornean quartz rocks; and dark-coloured limestone. This suite of rocks offers many objects worthy of a minute inquiry, far beyond the limits of these short notices. THE EDITOR. A very excellent account is given of the Veryan limestone by S. J. Trist, esq. in the first volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society of Cornwall. Mr. Trist says, The limestone occurs on the coast at Pendower Beach, and may thence be traced for a mile and a half inland. It comes to the surface, in three different places, nearly equidistant from each other, but at different elevations, the most inland being probably a hundred and twenty, or thirty feet above the level of the sea. In each instance it creeps out at the brow of a hill, and no where appears in the vale below, where it would seem originally to have stretched across the valleys, but to have been subsequently carried away, together with the accompanying matter, by diluvian action. In breadth it extends over a superficies of 350 yards, but alternates with an argillaceous schist, the lime itself never exceeding three feet in thickness, and that only in the upper beds of the strata. The lime scarcely amounts altogether to one eighth of the whole mass.