There is not any thing in Mr. Tonkin of importance, differing from Mr.
Hals.
He gives the Cornish distich, which has often been repeated,
Germow Mathern,
Breaga Lavethas.
“Germow was a king――Breaga a midwife;” which he explains in a
spiritual sense.
In the church-yard of Germoe, is a small alcove called King Germoe’s
Throne: it may perhaps have been a plain, simple shrine.