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  CORNWALL


                   AGENTS

  AMERICA      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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  AUSTRALASIA  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
                 205 Flinders Lane, MELBOURNE

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  [Illustration]




  THE LAND'S END

  CORNWALL

  PAINTED BY
  G. F. NICHOLLS

  DESCRIBED BY
  G. E. MITTON

  WITH
  TWENTY FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
  IN COLOUR

  [Illustration]

  A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
  4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
  1915




  Contents


  CHAPTER I                                PAGE
  POPULAR IDEAS OF CORNWALL                   1

  CHAPTER II
  THE GATEWAY OF THE DUCHY                   24

  CHAPTER III
  THE "TOE" OF CORNWALL                      34

  CHAPTER IV
  FURTHEST WEST AND FURTHEST SOUTH           51

  CHAPTER V
  KING ARTHUR'S LAND                         71

  CHAPTER VI
  THE SANDY BEACHES OF THE NORTHERN COAST    92

  CHAPTER VII
  THE INLETS OF THE SOUTH COAST             109

  CHAPTER VIII
  CORNISH TOWNS                             124

  CHAPTER IX
  CORNISH CUSTOMS                           135

  SOME BOOKS ON CORNWALL                    145

  INDEX                                     147





  List of Illustrations in Colour


  1. The Land's End             _Frontispiece_
                                  FACING PAGE
  2. Carbis Bay                             6
  3. Kynance Cove                          10
  4. At Polperro                           14
  5. The Coast near the Lizard             16
  6. Old Bridge at Lostwithiel             28
  7. St. Michael's Mount                   34
  8. Newlyn                                38
  9. Lamorna Cove                          42
  10. Caerthilian Cove                     66
  11. St. Ives                             92
  12. A Street in St. Ives                 94
  13. From Lelant to Godrevy               98
  14. Fowey                               110
  15. Bodinnick Ferry, Fowey              114
  16. Looe                                118
  17. Flushing--from Falmouth             122
  18. Truro                               124
  19. The Banks of the Fal, Falmouth      128
  20. At Newlyn                           138

  _Bird's-Eye View of Fowey Haven, pp._ 112 _and_ 113.
  _Sketch-Map at end of volume_.




CORNWALL




I

POPULAR IDEAS OF CORNWALL


To the mind of the ordinary Briton there is a curious attraction in
"getting as far as you can"--a streak in mentality which has accounted
in no small degree for the world-wide Empire. In England you cannot in
one direction get any farther than the extreme point of Cornwall. Owing
to the geographical configuration of Cornwall, the idea is magnified
very vigorously into a really gallant effort to "get there," such as
might be made by an individual stretching out not only to his full
stride, but indulging in a good kick! We feel in very truth we have "got
there," on to the edge of something or somewhere. As Wilkie Collins
expresses it, the Land's End is "the sort of place where the last man in
England would be most likely to be found waiting for death at the end of
the world!"

Thus it is that Cornwall holds a special magnet which steadily draws a
never-ending succession of strangers. Look only at those who do the feat
of cycling or motoring from John o' Groat's to Land's End. Picture them
in an indomitable long-drawn-out line, wheel to wheel; shadowy forms
flitting over that last--or first--piece of road, full of hope and
exultation at the thought of the journey's end, or full of anticipation
at the journey's beginning. No road in England has been