Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE CORNISH RIVIERA Described by SIDNEY HEATH Pictured by E. W. HASLEHUST [Illustration] BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY * * * * * [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO FOWEY HARBOUR] * * * * * BEAUTIFUL ENGLAND _VOLUMES READY_ BATH AND WELLS BOURNEMOUTH AND CHRISTCHURCH CAMBRIDGE CANTERBURY CHESTER AND THE DEE THE CORNISH RIVIERA DARTMOOR DICKENS-LAND THE DUKERIES THE ENGLISH LAKES EXETER FOLKESTONE AND DOVER HAMPTON COURT HASTINGS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD HEREFORD AND THE WYE THE ISLE OF WIGHT THE NEW FOREST NORWICH AND THE BROADS OXFORD THE PEAK DISTRICT RIPON AND HARROGATE SCARBOROUGH SHAKESPEARE-LAND SWANAGE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD THE THAMES WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON THE HEART OF WESSEX WINCHESTER WINDSOR CASTLE YORK BEAUTIFUL IRELAND LEINSTER ULSTER MUNSTER CONNAUGHT BEAUTIFUL SWITZERLAND LUCERNE VILLARS AND CHAMPERY CHAMONIX LAUSANNE AND ITS ENVIRONS * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Entrance to Fowey Harbour _Frontispiece_ Truro Cathedral from the River 8 Polruan 14 The Harbour, Fowey 20 View of Falmouth Harbour 26 St. Michael's Mount 32 On the Lerryn River 38 Penzance from Newlyn Harbour 42 In the Harbour, Newlyn 46 Land's End 50 In St. Ives Harbour 54 The Cliffs, Newquay 58 [Illustration] THE CORNISH RIVIERA PLYMOUTH TO LAND'S END "By Tre, Pol, and Pen, You may know the Cornishmen." The majority of our English counties possess some special feature, some particular attraction which acts as a lodestone for tourists, in the form of a stately cathedral, striking physical beauty, or a wealth of historical or literary associations. There are large districts of rural England that would have remained practically unknown to the multitude had it not been for their possession of some superb architectural creation, or for the fame bestowed upon the district by the makers of literature and art. The Bard of Avon was perhaps the unconscious pioneer in the way of providing his native town and county with a valuable asset of this kind. The novels of Scott drew thousands of his readers to the North Country, and those of R. D. Blackmore did the same for the scenes so graphically depicted in _Lorna Doone_; while Thomas Hardy is probably responsible for half the number of tourists who visit Dorset.