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Resources - Online Books

 
Some of these are intended to be read online, others are also available as downloadable pdfs. Some of the text files require the download of a viewer add-on.

  1. Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall by Arthur Hamilton Norway, published 1900. Available as text file or web pages.
     
  2. Cornwall, its mines and miners; with sketches of scenery by John R. Leifchild, published 1855. Available as an online pdf, can be downloaded.
     
  3. Cornish Surnames - Online version of Patronymica Cornu-Britannica or The Etymology of Cornish Surnames by Richard Stephen Charnock (1870). Available as web pages.
     
  4. The Survey of Cornwall and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue, by Richard Carew, of Antonie, Esq., published MDCCLXIX (1769). Available as a text file or web pages.
     
  5. The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, Architectural. Agricultural, Commercial, Biographical and Miscellaneous by The Reverend R. Polwhele (1816 edition). Available as web pages.
     
  6. The Cornwall Coast By Arthur L. Salmon Illustrated, published 1910. Available as a text file or as web pages.
     
  7. The Cornish Riviera by Sidney Heath, pictured by E. W. Hazelhurst, published 1915. Available as a web pages.
     
  8. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Volumes 3-4 (Mining History). Available as web pages.
     
  9. The laws of the stannaries of Cornwall: with marginal notes and references to Authorities. (Mining). Available as web pages or text only.
     
  10. General view of the agriculture of the county of Cornwall by George B. Worgan. Board of Agriculture, 1811. Available as web pages or text only.
     

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