which translated means:
Eternal life be his whose loving care
Gave Paul an almshouse, and the church repair.
There was also an epitaph in the churchyard over the grave of an old
lady who died at the age of 102, worded:
Here lyeth interred Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1778, said to have
been the last person who conversed in the ancient Cornish, the
peculiar language of this county from the earliest records, till it
expired in the eighteenth century in this Parish of St. Paul. This
stone is erected by the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, in union with
the Rev. John Garrett, Vicar of St. Paul 1860.
Under the guidance of our friend, who of course acted as leader, we now
passed on to the famous place known as Mousehole, a picturesque village
in a shady hollow, with St. Clement's Island a little way out to sea in
front. This place, now named Mousehole, was formerly Porth Enys, or the
Island Port, and a quay was built here as early as the year 1392. We saw
the cavern, rather a large one, and near it the fantastic rocks
associated with Merlin the "Prince of Enchanters," some of whose
prophecies applied to Cornwall. At Mousehole there was a large rock
named Merlin's Stone, where the only Spaniards that ever devastated the
shores of England landed in 1595.
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