SEAT S. MOUNT EDGCUMBE, near Plymouth, is the feat of Lord EDGCUMBE. It is built in a pleasant romantic manner, and affords an unbounded profpect over an adjacent country, as well as the fea. It is adorned with many fine paintings, and the gar dens are laid out in a very elegant manner. About five miles from Saltafh, on the right fide of the river Tamar, is the feat of Thomas Tillie, Efq. It is a most beauplace, with fine gardens on the banks of the river. Anthony, in the neighbourhood of Mount Edgcumbe, is a feat belonging to the Carew family. Here is a noble fifh-pond, fupplied with water from the fea.-Arwenack, near Penryn, is the feat of the Killigrew family.-Godolphin is the feat of the Earl of Godolphin; and Baconnock, five miles from Lefkeard, was the feat of the late Lord Mohun, but now of Thomas Pitt, Efq. brother to the Earl of Chatham. The ISLANDS OF SCILLY have always been deemed part of Cornwall. They are about one hundred and forty fmall islands, that lie near fixty miles diftant from the Land's End, and are fupposed to have been feparated from it, and from each other, by fome violent eruption of the fea, which is from forty to fixty fathom deep all about them. The largest and most fruitful is nine miles in circumference; it is called St. Mary's, and has a good harbour, with a caftle that was built by queen Elizabeth. ther of them is called the Ifland of Scilly, from which the rocks took their name; thefe and fome others, ftand high, and bear good corn, with fine pafture, abounding alfo with rabbets and cranes, herons, fwans, and other water fowl. Ano As these islands lie in the middle, between the Bristol channel on the north, and the English channel on the fouth, they have proved fatal to innumerable fhips, notwithstanding light-houses have been erected, and every other method taken to prevent it FINI S. ERRAT A. In Vol. II. page 270, line 14, for Monmouth, read Beaufort. In Vol. II. page 316, line 13, for also belonging, read also a clofe belonging In Vol. II. page 367, line 42, for where, read when. In Vol. II. page 378, line 16, for it runs by Eglos-hel, the church, read it runs by Elos-hill, that is, the church. In Vol. II, page 387, line 24, for whemed, read whelmed. |