A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End: Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West CornwallParis, John Ayrton
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A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End: Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall
Paris, John Ayrton
Cornwall (England : County) -- Guidebooks
_Intermediate objects worthy of notice, 74.--Castle Horneck,
75.--Rose Hill--Trereiffe, 76.--The country wild but susceptible
of cultivation, 77.--Furze--Boulders of Granite, 77.--Capable of
numerous applications in rural oeconomy, 78.--Cornish Granite,
(provincially, Growan), when in a state of decomposition is used
as a manure, 79.--Theory of its operation, 79.--Form of the
Felspar crystals, 79.--State of Agriculture--The Farm of John
Scobell, Esq. at Leha, 80.--Arish Mows, 81.--Ancient Stone Crosses,
81.--Druidical Circle at Boscawen Un, 81.--Opinions concerning the
origin of such circles, 82.--Chapel Euny, and its mystic well,
82.--Caerbran Round, 83.--Other Hill Castles, 84.--Chapel Carn
Bre--Its origin, 84.--Commands a very extensive view, 85.--Sennan
Church-town--The First and Last Inn in England, 85.--The Village
of Mayon or Mean, 85.--Table Mean the vague tradition concerning,
86.--THE LAND'S END, 86.--A Spot of great geological_ _interest,
87.--Grotesque appearance of its granitic rocks, 87.--The Armed
Knight, Irish Lady, and Dr. Johnson's Head, 88.--Cape Cornwall, and
Whitsand Bay, 88.--Historical recollections, 88.--The Long-Ships
Light-house, 89.--Tradition of the Lioness, 91.--The Wolf rock,
91.--THE SCILLY ISLANDS, 92.--Ancient Accounts--Six of the Islets
only inhabited, 92.--Saint Agnes, 93.--The Light-house, 93.--Civil
Government of the Islands, 93.--Present inhabitants all new
comers, 94.--A robust and healthy race, 94.--Their employment,
96.--Experience great distress, 96.--Curious fact with respect
to the migration of the Woodcock, 98.--Climate and Geology,
99.--RETURN TO THE LAND'S END--Fine rock Scenery at the Cape near
the Signal Station, 101.--Tol Pedn Penwith, 102.--Cornish Chough--A
Cliff Castle, 102.--Castle Treryn--Stupendous Rock Scenery--THE
LOGAN ROCK, 103.--Its weight, 103.--How and whence it came, 104.--A
natural production, 104.--Its appearance easily reconciled with
the known laws of decomposition, 105.--Used probably by the Druids
as an engine of superstition, 105.--Plants--Geological phenomena,
106.--Rare Shells to be found in Treryn Cove, 107.--SAINT BURYAN,
once the seat of a College of Augustine Canons, 108.--Church Tower
commands a very extensive prospect--Remarkable ancient Monument in
the church, 109.--Ancient Crosses, 110.--The Deanery, 111.--The
supposed Sanctuary, 111.--Return to Penzance by a circuitous route,
through the parish of Saint Paul, 111.--Boskenna, the romantic
seat of John Paynter, Esq., 112.--A Druidical_ _circle, called
the Merry Maidens, 112.--Sepulchral Stones called the Pipers,
113.--Carn Boscawen, Pensile Stone at, 113.--Trove or Trewoof, the
remains of a triple entrenchment at, 113.--The romantic valley of
Lemorna, 113.--Kerris, supposed Druidical monument at, 114.--PAUL
CHURCH, 114.--Epitaph of Dolly Pentreath, 115.--Mousehole and
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