_An object of the very first interest--Excursion by water--By land, 45.--The Eastern Green celebrated as the habitat of some rare plants, 46.--MARAZION, or MARKET JEW, 47.--Its origin and Charter, 47.--Chapel Rock, 48.--ARRIVAL AT SAINT MICHAEL'S MOUNT, 49.--Conical form of the hill--Its dimensions--Town at its base--The Pier--Interesting as a geological object, 50.--Why--Its scenery most magnificent--Geological structure, 51.--Militates against the Wernerian doctrines--De Luc's improbable explanation, 51.--Dr. Berger's gratuitous assumption, 52.--Plutonian views, 52.--Western_ _base of the Mount--Beds of Granite, 53.--Quartz veins--Interesting contents of the veins, 55.--Pinite discovered in this spot, 55.--Other minerals, 56.--Lodes of Tin and Copper--Remains of a Tin Mine--Veins of Mica, 57.--The Tamarisk, 57.--Ascent to the Castle, 57.--Ancient Fortifications--The Chevychace room, 58.--The Chapel, 59.--Mysterious discovery in the Chapel, 59.--More Discoveries--Ascent to the top of the tower--Prospect hence of the grandest description, 60.--Saint Michael's Chair--Its origin and supposed mystic powers--A remnant of Monkish fable, 61.--The modern Apartments, 62.--THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HILL--Formerly cloathed with wood--Its old Cornish appellation, 62.--Once at a distance from the sea, 63.--ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY--Monkish Legends of the vision of Saint Michael, 63.--Saint Keyne's Pilgrimage to the Mount in the fifth century, 64.--The Confessor's Endowment, 65.--Ancient instrument A.D. 1070 found amongst its registers, 65--Annexed to a Norman Priory at the Conquest, 66.--The Nunnery--Its establishment broken up--The connection of the Priory with Normandy destroyed, 67.--Granted by Henry the Sixth to King's College Cambridge, 67.--Transferred by Edward IV. to the Nunnery of Sion in Middlesex, 68.--Bestowed upon Lord Arundel at the Reformation, 68.--Its PRIVATE HISTORY continued, 69.--MILITARY HISTORY.--Pomeroy's Treachery--Monks expelled--Monks restored, 70.--The Mount is again reduced by the Earl of Oxford, 71.--who in his turn is compelled to surrender to the forces of Edward the Fourth, 71.--The Lady_ _Catherine Gordon, wife of Perkin Warbeck, flies to the Mount for safety, 71.--Besieged by the Cornish rebels in the reign of Edward VI., 71.--Reduced by Colonel Hammond during the Civil war of Charles the First, 72.--The Mount supposed by Sir Christopher Hawkins and Dr. Maton to be the ICTIS of Diodorus Siculus, 73._ EXCURSION II. (_Page 74_) TO THE LAND's END, LOGAN ROCK, &c.