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RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS.

[Illustration: LAMORNA COVE.]




  RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS;

  OR,

  Notes in Cornwall taken A-Foot.




  BY WILKIE COLLINS,

  AUTHOR OF
  "ANTONINA," "THE WOMAN IN WHITE," ETC.



  [Illustration: The Land's End, Cornwall.]



  _NEW EDITION._


  LONDON:
  RICHARD BENTLEY: NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
  Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
  1861.




  DEDICATED TO

  THE COMPANION OF MY WALK THROUGH CORNWALL,

  HENRY C. BRANDLING.




  PREFACE

  TO

  THE PRESENT EDITION.


I visited Cornwall, for the first time, in the summer and autumn of
1850; and in the winter of the same year, I wrote this book.

At that time, the title attached to these pages was strictly descriptive
of the state of the county, when my companion and I walked through it.
But when, little more than a year afterwards, a second edition of this
volume was called for, the all-conquering railway had invaded Cornwall
in the interval, and had practically contradicted me on my own
title-page.

To rechristen my work was out of the question--I should simply have
destroyed its individuality. Ladies may, and do, often change their
names for the better; but books enjoy no such privilege. In this
embarrassing position, I ended by treating the ill-timed intrusion of
the railway into my literary affairs, as a certain Abbe (who was also an
author,) once treated