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
_Embowered Village of Gulval--Kenegie the seat of J. A. Harris
Arundel, Esq.--Rosmorran, the retired cottage of George John,
Esq., 143.--Ascent to the great Granite ridge, 143.--Castle an
Dinas, 144.--Atmospheric Phenomenon, 144.--SAINT IVES, 145.--THE
PILCHARD FISHERY--Confusion and bustle which are occasioned
on the appearance of a shoal, 146.--Natural History of the
Pilchard, 147.--Period of its appearance, 148.--How discovered
by the Huer, 149.--Necessary outfit for the fishery, 149.--The
Great Net, or Stop Seine--How shot, 150.--The quantity of fish
usually secured--Tucking, a beautiful sight, 152.--Driving Nets,
153.--Fish_ _brought to the cellars and cured--lying in bulk,
153.--Packed in hogsheads, headed up, and exported, 154.--The
great importance of this fishery to the county, 155.--Refuse fish
used as manure, 155.--Their fertilizing powers increased by lime,
156.--THE HERRING FISHERY, 156.--Tregenna Castle, the seat of
Samuel Stephens, Esq.--Knill's Mausoleum, 157.--Quinquennial Games
instituted, 158.--Hayle Sands--The Port of Hayle, 159.--Desolate
appearance of the district, 161.--Sand-flood, 162.--RECENT
FORMATION OF SANDSTONE, 163.--Investigation of the causes which
have operated in consolidating the sand, 166.--Huel Alfred
Copper-mine, 169.--The Herland Mines, 170.--Saint Erth--Trevethoe,
171.--Tin Smelting, 173.--Ludgvan Church--The tomb of the venerable
and learned Dr. Borlase, 174._
EXCURSION V.
(_Page_ 176.)
TO REDRUTH, AND THE MINING DISTRICTS IN ITS
VICINITY.
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