The traveller no sooner catches a glimpse of this extraordinary feature in the bay, than he becomes impatient to explore it; anticipating this feeling we have selected it as an object for his first excursion, and in its performance we promise him an intellectual repast of no ordinary kind. To proceed to the Mount, by sea, the stranger may embark at Penzance pier, from which it is not more than two miles distant; by this arrangement an opportunity will be afforded for witnessing a fine panoramic view of the coast; should, however, his inclination, or the "tyranny of the winds and waves" oppose this project, he may proceed by land through the little village of Chyandour, over a semicircular beach covered with fine sand of about three miles in extent. Between this sand and the high road is the "_Eastern Green_," celebrated as the habitat of some rare plants, viz. _Panicum Dactylum_ (in a line with Gulval church); _Chironia Littoralis_; _Alisma Damasonium_; _Neottia Spiralis_; _Euphorbia Peplis_; _Euphorbia Paralias_; _Santolina Maritima_; _Convolvulus Soldanella_, &c. On the beach the Conchologist may collect some fine specimens of the _Echinus Cordatus_, which is the only shell ever found there. In the marshes on the left side of the road the common observer will be struck with the extreme luxuriance of the _Nymphæa alba_, while the Botanist may reap an ample harvest of interesting plants, viz. splendid specimens of _Montia Fontana_, as large as the figure of Micheli; _Illecebrum Verticillatum_; _Sison Inundatum_; _Apium Graveolens_; a rare variety of _Senechio Jacobæa_; _Alisma Ranunculoides_; _Stellaria Uliginosa_; _Pinguicula Lusitanica_; _Scirpus Fluitans_; _Exacum Filiforme_; _Drosera Longifolia_; _Scutellaria Minor_; _Myrica Gale_, &c. Before our arrival at Saint Michael's Mount, the only intermediate object worthy of notice is the town of MARAZION, or MARKET JEW as it is sometimes called. It stands upon the sea shore, on the eastern shoulder of the bay, and is well sheltered from cold winds by a considerable elevation of land to the north; still, however, as it is exposed to the south-west, which is the prevailing wind, it is far less eligible as a place of residence for invalids than Penzance.