[Illustration: _Drawn by F. Tonkin._] A GVIDE TO MOVNTS BAY AND LANDS END. [Illustration] A GUIDE TO THE MOUNT's BAY AND THE LAND's END; COMPREHENDING THE TOPOGRAPHY, BOTANY, AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, ANTIQUITIES, MINING, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF Western Cornwall. SECOND EDITION. _To which is added_, _for the information of Invalids_, A DIALOGUE ON THE PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THE CLIMATES OF PENZANCE, DEVONSHIRE, AND THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF EUROPE. By a PHYSICIAN. "Auditque suis _tria_ littora campis." LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. PHILLIPS, GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET: SOLD ALSO BY T. VIGURS, PENZANCE; AND W. AND C. TAIT, EDINBURGH. 1824. TO THE VICE PATRONS, PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENTS, AND MEMBERS OF The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, _THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED_, AS A HUMBLE, YET SINCERE TRIBUTE OF RESPECT, FOR THE ZEAL AND LIBERALITY WITH WHICH THEY CONTINUE TO UPHOLD AN INSTITUTION "WHICH HAS RENDERED THEIR HOME THE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, AND THEIR NATIVE RICHES INCREASING SOURCES OF PROSPERITY." TO THE READER. This little volume has been republished, at the earnest solicitation of numerous friends and applicants, and with such additions and improvements as the present extended state of information appeared to render necessary. In obeying this call, the author trusts that he may, in some degree, remove the prejudice to which the carelessness of his provincial compositor must, on the former occasion, have exposed the work. Since the publication of the first Edition, PENZANCE, and the District of the Mount's Bay, have become objects of greatly increased interest; the successful establishment of the Geological Society,--the erection of commodious Sea Baths,--the growing confidence of the Public, and of the medical profession, in the superior mildness of the climate,--and the general amelioration of every thing connected with the wants and comforts of a winter residence, have powerfully operated in augmenting the influx of strangers and invalids, into this formerly obscure, and comparatively neglected district. Such considerations, it will be acknowledged, were quite sufficient to sanction the propriety and expediency of the present undertaking, but the author must in candour allow, that they would scarcely have prevailed, had not another powerful motive been in silent but effectual co-operation--the "_Antiquæ vestigia Flammæ_,"--a secret lingering after the pursuits of Geology have, for once at least, seduced him from a resolution he had formed on quitting Cornwall,--that of abandoning a science which can never be pursued except with enthusiasm; but which, from its direction and tendency, is wholly incompatible with the duties of an anxious and laborious profession.