*LOW-WEST, (Cornwall) called also Port-Pigham, is divided from the former by a stone-bridge of 15 arches over the r. Low;
from whence both Ts. receive their name, as the r. does from the lowness of its current bet. its high banks. The corp. by
charter of Q. Eliz. consists of 12 burgesses, one of whom is annually chosen mayor, and with the other burgesses has power
to chuse a steward. Its members, whom it has sent to Pt. ever since the 6th of Edw. VI. are elected by the corp. and
freemen, who are about 60. Here is a pretty little harbour; and there was a chapel of ease in the R. of Hen. VIII. which
was afterwards converted into a T.-hall; and the T. lying in the p. of Talland, the people go thither to Ch. The manor was
originally in the family of Treverbin; from which it descended to the Carminows and Courtneys, but was by Hen. VIII.
united to the duchy of Cornwall, and vested in the corp. for 24 s. a year. The Mt. is on S. Fair April 25. St. George's, a
small island near the mouth of its harbour, abounds with sea pyes. The r. here is navigable for vessels of 100 tons.