A Cornish Parish

Excerpt from A Cornish Parish: Being an Account of St. Austell, Town, Church, District and People This, then, has been the genesis of the book, and this is its aim: it aims at killing two birds with one stone. Alike for the people of St. Austell and its vicinity as for visitors to our shores, I have compiled an unpretentious history of the Town and handbook to the Church; for the latter more especially, but not exclusively, I have added a description of our parish and neighbourhood, whilst for the reading public who are neither inhabitants nor immigrants (who may at the same time, as I h0pe, find in the preliminary Account of St. Austell something to interest and instruct them) I have treated of our parish as a Corner of Cornwall, and have attempted a portrait, an outline, of the Cornish people, their manners and customs. There seemed to me to be the more reason for attempting this delineation in that these local customs and idiosyncrasies cannot in the nature of things last very much longer. Even now we are gradually - I might say, rapidly oecoming assimilated to the rest of England, and with our increasing contact with the outer world and the inrush of visitors,1 foreigners, every summer, it is impossible that our insularity - or shall I say, individuality - can be maintained for many more years. All local usages are fleeting; all, I fear, are doomed to absorption, and it is as well to photograph them before they fade away and are no more seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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