Produced by Chris Curnow, Eric Skeet and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Transcriber's Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscore_, bold text by =equal signs=, and fancy fonts by ~tilde~] CAMBRIDGE COUNTY GEOGRAPHIES General Editor: F.H.H. GUILLEMARD, M.A., M.D. CORNWALL CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ~London~: FETTER LANE, E.C. C.F. CLAY, MANAGER [Illustration: Coat of Arms] ~Edinburgh~: 100, PRINCES STREET ~Berlin~: A. ASHER AND CO. ~Leipzig~: F.A. BROCKHAUS ~New York~: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS ~Bombay and Calcutta~: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. [_All rights reserved_] _Cambridge County Geographies_ CORNWALL by S. BARING-GOULD With Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations Cambridge: at the University Press 1910 ~Cambridge~: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS PAGE 1. County and Shire. Meaning of the Word 1 2. General Characteristics 3 3. Size, Shape, Boundaries 5 4. Surface and General Features 8 5. Watershed, Rivers 13 6. Geology and Soil 19 7. Natural History 26 8. Around the Coast. From Morwenstow to Land's End 31 9. Around the Coast. From Land's End to Rame Head 41 10. The Coast--Gains and Losses 51 11. The Coast--Tides, Islands, and Lighthouses 57 12. Climate--Rainfall 61 13. People--Race, Dialect, Population 67 14. Agriculture--Main Cultivations. Stock 72 15. Industries and Manufactures 79 16. Minerals and Mining 80 17. Fisheries 88 18. Shipping and Trade 94 19. History 97 20. Antiquities: Prehistoric, Roman, Celtic, Saxon 106 21. Architecture: (_a_) Ecclesiastical 114 22. Architecture: (_b_) Military--Castles 125 23. Architecture: (_c_) Domestic and Monastic 128 24. Communications--Roads, Railways 132 25. Administration and Divisions, Ancient and Modern 135 26. Roll of Honour 140 27. The Chief Towns and Villages of Cornwall 148 ILLUSTRATIONS