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ST DOMINICK.

some property in the parish, but much the greater part belongs to Lord Falmouth.

This parish, united in the same presentation with St. Michael Carhayes and St. Stephen in Branwell, may claim a share in the honour of Robert Dunkin, who was ejected in the interregnum and restored with the monarchy, and who has acquired celebrity by entering the field as a controversialist with the great John Milton.

This parish contains 2789 statute acres.

Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 £.
1524
s.
0
d.
0
Poor Rate in 1831 318 1 0
Population,— in 1801,
318
in 1811,
478
in 1821,
592
in 1831,
721

giving an increase of 126 per cent, in 30 years.

The southern part, situated on granite, amounts to more than half the parish. Near Restowrick the granite is large-grained and crystalline, like that of the range of Roughtor and Brown Willy; but it is associated with porcelainous granite, similar to that of Breage and of St. Stephen's (which will be noticed under the latter parish), and also with shorl and shorl rocks, as in Roach where the rocks are better displayed.


ST. DOMINICK.

HALS.

Is situate in the hundred of Eastwellshire, and hath upon the north, Calstock; east, the Tamar river; south, part of Landulph; west, St. Mellen. For the modem name of this parish and church, it is derived from St. Dominick the monk of Spain, presidual saint and tutelar guardian of this