and peerless. He then, like good Cincinnatus, quitted the path of Fame, crowned with the Guerdon of Praise, to live in the arms of his wife and children, at Tregony; where he resided, in unambitious retirement and, not far from the spot where his remains now lie, he cultivated, with his own hands, the garden attached to his residence.

Horticulture has, from the world's beginning, until this day, been the pursuit of elevated minds. Our great Progenitor cultivated, by divine appointinent, the grounds of blissful Eden;-the immortal Cincinnatus left the plough, to assume the Dictatorship; and, having vanquished the united forces of the Æqui and Volsci, speedily resigned, into the hands of the Roman Senate, his absolute power; and retired, to cultivate his little farm ;-Dwight, the celebrated transAtlantic theologian professor, daily worked in his garden, before breakfast;-even the immortal Napoleon handled a spade in St. Helena; and, in the time of Father Du

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halde, the Chinese Emperor conferred, annually, the title of Mandarin, (Chinese nobility,) on that man, in every Chinese province, who best cultivated his farm.

The day advesperated, ere I left the church yard of Tregony; and I pursued, in the shades of evening, my route to

St. AUSTLE.

This town, which comprehends 12,000 inhabitants, is built on the side of a hill, about one mile from the sea. The church is large and handsome; and the townsmen make its tower their boast. Here are manufactories of coarse woollens, some good inns, and many handsome residences. Oliver Cromwell chartered this town; for the valour of one May, who fought gallantly, in a battle near Boconnoc. St. Austle was a small town, till lately; and owes its rapid growth, to the rich produce of vicinal mines. Here I passed the night.

CHAPTER XVI.

"Tentanda via est, quâ me quoque possim Tollere humo; victorque virum volitare per ora."

VIRGIL:

"New ways I must attempt, my groveling name, To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame."

DRYDEN.

I BEGAN another day, and resumed my route, by a visit to another mine. From a hill, one mile north of St. Austle, I enjoyed a splendid view,--having the bay, Porthmear, to the south, with the interstitial and circumjacent country: at the southeastern extremity of the bay, is a lofty promontory, called Gull's seat; near which is a headland called Giblin, whereon

stands a lofty and picturesque pillar, set up as a land-mark. Sir Wm. Rashleigh has a seat in this locality. Having progressed a few hundred yards, I traversed a lofty, barren heath, and found myself at

CARCLAZE OPEN MINE.

I arrived at the precipitous brink of the Carclaze mine, and was filled with admiration at the sight;-an area of some acres, excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, the sides perpendicular, and dazzling white, as the south eastern cliffs of England. This is, nevertheless, granite; but, of a softer kind than the generality of that stone in Cornwall. The interior of this mine, which was worked sixteen centuries before the Christian era, is picturesque and novel. You see the wheels of eight water mills revolving,-four at the eastern, and four at the western end: those nearest the ends of the mine being forty feet from the surface, the next fifty-six, the next seventytwo, and the innermost eighty-eight feet from the surface. After gazing, with min

gled pleasure and amazement, at the scene, I descended the fearful steep; and proceeded to view the works. The interesting character of Carclaze mine is, that it is the only tin mine in Cornwall, where the lode lies exposed to human gaze, by the light of the sun: the whole mine, and all its internal works, being open. The lode runs, on the north side of the mine, from east to west; and is at present four feet wide: how long and how deep it is, may never be discovered. They loosen the ore, with a pick; and then break it up, with a sledge hammer. The primum mobile, or main-spring of action at Carclaze, is a stream of water; which is conducted thither from a spring, three miles distant: which, when it arrives within an hundred yards of the mine, is divided into two currents; and these enter the mine, at the eastern and western ends, by subterranean conduits, at a depth of forty feet below the surface. My description of the stream, and the four wheels, at the eastern end, mutatis mutandis, will suffice for