The greater part of the valleys in Cornwall having been long since
streamed, exhibit little else than heaps of unsightly rubbish; instead
of displaying, as in other districts, the most pleasing features of a
country. The late Mr. Humphrey Mackworth Praed has, however, proved in
the case of a valley at Lelant, that such deformities may be removed,
and the meadows restored to their natural beauty, accompanied even by
pecuniary advantage to the proprietor. But such improvements are
greatly obstructed by an anomalous property called the right of bounds.