FOUNTAINS. See HYDRODYNAMICS.
r ONVEY, or Fnwuv, is a burgh and sea-port town of England, in the county of Cornwall. It is situated on the western bank of the river Fawy, which here swells itself into a. spacious harbour. The town stretches for more than a mile along the banks of the river, The houses are principally built of stone, but the streets are so angular, and irregular, and narrow, that wheeled carriages cannot pass through any of them. The church is a large build ing, and seems to have been erected about the time of Edward IV. It has a large and two smaller aisles, and a handsome tower on the west. The market-house is large and spacious, and over it is a neat town hall, erected some time ago by Philip Itashleigh, Esq. and Lord Viscount Valletort, who then represented the burgh in parliament. The town also contains two good free schools, an alms house for eight decayed widows, and a poor's-house. The ancient mansion, called the Place, or Treffry-house, is situated on an eminence on the north side of the church, and though now in a state of decay, has once been a hand some building.
The greater part of the inhabitants of Fowey are con nected with the pilchard fishery. More than 28,000 hogs
heads of fish are annually brought into this port. The harbour is now defended by two small batteries, and by St Catherine's fort, which stands on the summit of a magni ficent pile of rocks, that bounds one of the creeks of the river. This fort was built by the townsmen, in the reign of Henry VIII. On both sides of the river Fawy, the scenery is extremely picturesque. The rocks are com posed of a hard bluish slate, containing broad veins of jet quartz. The ruins of two square stone towers exist on the rocks on the opposite side of the harbour.
The following is the statistical abstract for 1811, includ ing the town and parish : Inhabited houses, 227 Families, 320 Ditto employed in agriculture, . . . 50 Ditto employed in trade and manufactures, 75 Males, 554 Females, 765 Total population, 1319 West Long. 40° 37' 31", North Lat. of Fowey 50° 20' 7". See Polpl hele's History of Cornwall ; Maton's Observations on the Western Counties ; and the Beauties of _England and [Vales, ii. p. 410. (:)