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CORNWALL summit ; and traditions of giants attach to the huge masses of granite. This castie is said to have been of their building, and the giants of Trecrobben used to play at " bob-buttons " with the giants of St. Michael's Mount. Treen. (See Treryn.) Treffry Viaduct, a little beyond Bridges Station, on the line from Par to Newquay, was erected by the late J. T. Treffry, at a cost of £7000, for the use of his mineral railway. It is a fine granite structure. Treffcar (2i m. W. of Bodmin) has a camp which has been declared to be Roman on the strength of Roman coins being found there. But the mere finding of coins in a place does not prove the presence of Romans. Roman money circulated freely in South Britain — prob- ably even before the coming of Caesar. Two sides of this entrenchment may yet be traced. Tregony (about 3 m. S. of Grampound) was formerly a distinct parish, but is now merged in Cuby (which see), its church having been long since destroyed. Being situated on the Fal, Tregony has sometimes been suggested in connection with the Roman station of Cenion ; but Cenion was almost certainly Kenwyn. The place actually returned two members to Parlia- ment in the time of Henry L, probably through the influence of its lords the Pomeroys, who had a castle here. TregotJuian. (See St. Michael Penkivel.) Trelawne. (See Pelynt.) Trelowarren (5 m. S.E. of Helston) is the 244