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A town with a past -- The principality of Gallewick -- A royal / residence -- The Boy and the Mantle -- Caradock and Tegau -- Arthur / and Guenever -- Southill -- S. Samson -- Callington Church -- The / Borough -- Dupath Well -- Hingesdon Hill -- S. / Ive -- Linkinhorne -- Story of S. Melor -- The Cheesewring -- Camp -- The / Hurlers -- Trethevy stone -- S. Cleer -- The Tamar -- Arsenic / manufacture -- Poisoning -- Production -- Pentillie.
Callington is a town with a past; whether it has a future is problematical. Its past is remote; and if it has a future, that will be equally distant. Issachar was a strong ass couching between two burdens; and Callington lies low between the great bunches of Caradon and Hingesdon, two huge masses of moor said to be rich in minerals. In the times of Callington's prosperity it throve on these lodes of tin and copper. But now the mines are abandoned and the population has leaked away. Should the two mountains be again worked, then the profits will go to Liskeard, seated on a railway, on one side, and to Gunnislake, planted on the Tamar, on the other.