EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 337 ***
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION
Vol. XII. No. 337.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1828. [PRICE 2d.
Cheese Wring.
(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
[Illustration]
In presenting your readers with a representation of the Wring Cheese, I
offer a few prefatory remarks connected with the early importance of the
county in which it stands, venerable in its age, amid the storms of
elements, and the changes of religions. Its pristine glory has sunk on
the horizon of Time; but its legend, like a soft twilight of its former
day, still hallows it in the memories of the surrounding peasantry.
Cornwall is allowed by antiquaries to be the Capiterides; and the Abbe
de Fontenu, in the _Memoires de Literature_, tom. vii. p. 126, proves,
according to Vallancey, that the Phoenicians traded here for tin before
the Trojan war. Homer frequently mentions this metal; and even in
Scripture we have allusions to this land under the name of Tarshish
(Ezekiel, c.
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