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cell or chapel on Roach Rock, till at last his fate was changed into the performance of a task to exhaust the water from Dozmere, with an implement less adapted, if possible, for its appropriate work than were the colanders given to the daughter of Danaus:
Hoc' ut opinor, id est ævo florente puellas,
Quod memorant, laticem pertusum congerere in vas,
Quod tamen expleri nulla ratione potest[ur].
Tregagle is provided simply with a limpet-shell having a hole bored through it, and with this he is said to labour without intermission; in dry seasons flattering himself that he has made some progress towards the end of his work; but when rain commences, and the 'omnis effusus labor' becomes apparent, he is believed to roar so loudly, in utter despair, as to be heard from Dartmoor Forest to the Land's End."
TREGALLES. See Tregelles.
TREGANELL. See Tregonwell.
TREGANOAN, TREGANOWAN. From Treganoon in Lanivet; from treg'n-woon, the dwelling on the down or common.
TREGANYAN. From treg-an-jein, the cold dwelling. Pryce renders Treg-an-îan, the cold dwelling, or on the sea-shore. Tonkin derives Treganyan from tre-gan-ythan, the furzy town on the downs.
TREGARE. See Tregeare.
TREGARRICK, TREGARICK, TREGARREK. From Tregarrick in the parish of Roche, formerly the seat of this family, of which John Tregarrick was M.P. for Truro, temp. 7 Rich. II. Tregarrick is also the appellation of places in Menheriot and Pelynt. The name is from tre-