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                           A BOOK OF CORNWALL

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                     BY THE SAME AUTHOR

                     THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
                     THE TRAGEDY OF THE CAESARS
                     THE DESERT OF SOUTHERN FRANCE
                     STRANGE SURVIVALS
                     SONGS OF THE WEST
                     A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG
                     OLD COUNTRY LIFE
                     YORKSHIRE ODDITIES
                     HISTORIC ODDITIES
                     OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
                     AN OLD ENGLISH HOME
                     THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW
                     FREAKS OF FANATICISM
                     A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES


                     UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

                     A BOOK OF BRITTANY
                     A BOOK OF DARTMOOR
                     A BOOK OF DEVON
                     A BOOK OF NORTH WALES
                     A BOOK OF SOUTH WALES
                     A BOOK OF THE RIVIERA
                     A BOOK OF THE RHINE

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[Illustration: CORNISH FISHERMEN]
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A BOOK OF CORNWALL

by

S. BARING-GOULD

Author of "A Book of Brittany," "A Book of the Riviera," etc.

With Thirty-Three Illustrations

NEW EDITION







Methuen & Co.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London

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_First Published_       _August 1899_
_Second Edition_       _September 1902_
_New Edition_               _1906_

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                                CONTENTS



                    CHAPTER                    PAGE

                         I. THE CORNISH SAINTS    1

                        II. THE HOLY WELLS       28

                       III. CORNISH CROSSES      38

                        IV. CORNISH CASTLES      44

                         V. TIN MINING           52

                        VI. LAUNCESTON           67

                       VII. CALLINGTON           96

                      VIII. CAMELFORD           114

                        IX. BUDE                134

                         X. SALTASH             151

                        XI. BODMIN              163

                       XII. THE TWO LOOES       173

                      XIII. FOWEY               188

                       XIV. THE FAL             200

                        XV. NEWQUAY             214

                       XVI. THE LIZARD          242

                      XVII. SMUGGLING           263

                     XVIII. PENZANCE            282

                       XIX. THE LAND'S END      305

                        XX. THE SCILLY ISLES    329

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                             ILLUSTRATIONS


    CORNISH FISHERMEN                                 _Frontispiece_
       From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.
    S. MELOR'S WELL, LINKINHORNE                   _To face page_ 28
       From a photograph by the Rev. A. H. Malan.

        WELL CHAPEL OF S. CLETHER                         "  33
           From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.

        CROSS, S. LEVAN                                   "  38

        LAUNCESTON                                        "  44
           From an old print.

        A TIN MOULD                                       "  62

        LAUNCESTON, CHURCH PORCH                          "  67
           From a photograph by the Rev. F. Partridge.

        TREWORTHA MARSH                                   "  83
           From a painting by A. B. Collier, Esq.

        PLAN OF HABITATION ON TREWORTHA MARSH             "  84
           By permission of the _Daily Graphic