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SWANPOOL— TAMAR named from the swans formerly kept here by the Killigrews. St. Sytli's Beacon. (See Michaelstow.) Table-Men. (See Sennen.) Talland (2 m. W. of West Looe) is the mother parish of West Looe; it has one of Corn- wall's campanile churches. As usual in such cases, the church stands low, and the belfry is on higher ground. It contains a striking altar-tomb of Sir John Beville, and some fine bench-ends bearing Beville and Grenville arms. Frescoes discovered during restoration were foolishly destroyeci. The transept was known as the Killigarth Chapel, and Killigarth, where a modern house stands on the site of an old one, was the seat of the Bevilles. TrtWrtr.— The Tamar is generally thought of as a Devonshire river, but surely Cornwall, in which it rises, can claim a portion of its glory. The source of the river is at Wooley Barrows, in Morwenstow parish. It flows now in Devon and now in Cornwall, till it becomes the natural boundary of the two counties. Near Landulph it joins the Tavy, and below Saltash the Lynher ; the three united form the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound. Of course there is a suitable legend about a water nymph named Tamara ; but the name is probably ta-mazvr, the " great water ". This same root ta we find in the names of other rivers, such as Tay, Taw, Tavy ; possibly also in Tees, Tame, Thames, Teign, Tyne, and even Dee (though etymolo- gists have preferred to connect this latter with 235