The Cornwall Coast Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Cornwall Coast It should be mentioned that Mr. T. Fisher Unwin is sole wholesale agent for these maps, which may be procured from any bookseller. Fuller details of the maps are given in a special Catalogue issued by Mr. Unwin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Cornish Coast and Moors I I this book has any raison d'etre it is because it is an attempt to describe the scenery of the Duchy's incomparable coast and moorlands by one who loves it and who believes it to possess an unique aesthetic value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from In the Roar of the Sea: A Tale of the Cornish Coast She formed a charming picture, fresh and pure, and had the old man not been overtired, he would have thought so with a throb of parental pride. She was a child in size, slender in build, delicate in bone, with face and hands of porcelain transparency and whiteness, with, moreover, that incomparable complexion only seen in the British Isles, and then only with red gold hair. Her bronze-leather shoes were the hue of some large flies that basked and frisked on the warm wall, only slightly disturbed by the girl's play, to return again and run and preen themselves again, and glitter jewel-like as studs on that sun-baked, lichen-enamelled wall. Her eyes, moreover, were lustrous as the backs of these flies, iridescent with the changing lights of the declining sun, and the changed direction of her glance following the dancing ball of guelder-rose. Her long fingers might have been of china, but that when raised so that the sun struck their backs they were turned to a trans lucent rose. There was no color in her cheek, only the faintest suffusion of pink on the temples below where the hair was rolled back in waves of luminous molten copper dashing against the brick wall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Cornish Coast (South), And the Isles of Scilly The southern portion Of the Cornish Coast may be said to begin at the head of the navigation Of the river Tamar, at Weir Head, to which the excursion steamers from Plymouth can come at favourable tides, or a little lower, at Morwellham Quay, where the depth Of water permits Of more frequent approach. But barges can penetrate somewhat higher than even Weir Head, proceed ing through the canal locks at Netstakes, almost as far as that ancient work, New Bridge, which carries the high road from Dartmoor and Tavis tock out Of Devon into Cornwall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Book of Cornwall And it is a fact that nowhere else in England are there so many villages bearing the names Of saints, and these names strange, and such as may be sought out in vain in the calendars that are easily accessible. One is impressed with the idea that the vast majority Of these saints are unknown and negligible quantities. This, however, is an entirely false assumption, and it is based on the fact that their history has not been studied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Cornish Harbour In Payn's account of Newquay there is a touch of humorous exaggeration, yet for all that his picture of the place in its general features is not only true of the period when he wrote, but in many essentials equally true of the place to-day. His observation on the fascination this district exercises on those who travel hither is full of truth, and could hardly be better expressed With every day of our stay the little place grew dearer to us. How could we ever have thought that there was nothing in it! There was everything in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall Duffy and the Devil (an old Christmas Play); Celtic Monuments of Boleigh and Rosemodrass; The last Cardews of Boskenna and the story of Nelly Wearne; The Witch of Buryan Church-town; Madam Noy and the Witch; A Queen's visit to Baranhuel; The Small People's Cow (a fairy tale); Tom of Chyannor, the tin-streamer (a West Country droll); The Fairy Dwelling on Selena Moor; The I'an's House of Treen; Castle Treen and its Legends; Traditions of Parcunow; Legends of St. Levan; A Legend of Pargwarra; An' Pee Tregeer's trip to market on Hallan Eve (a fairy tale); An Overseer and a Parish Clerk of St. Just, sixty years ago; The Fairy Master, or Bob o' the Carn; A Tinner's fireside stories. - The Knockers of Ballowal; Old Songs and Nicknames; The Changeling of Brea-Vean (fairy tale); Betty Stoggs' Baby (fairy tale); How a Morvah man bought clothes for his wife; How a Zennor man choked himself, but had his will in his pocket; The Smugglers of Penrose; Tregagle at Gwenvor Cove; West Country Superstitions. - Devil's Money; The Slighted Damsel of Gwinear; The Wreck of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel; A Night's Ride to Scilly; Ancient Bridal Customs; Ancient Rites at Madron Well; The Crick-stone, or Men-an-tol; Charms; The Fairy Tribes; The Pirate Wrecker and the Death-Ship; The sun never shines on those who have sworn away a life; A Legend of Pengersec About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cornwall Although we use the term county for Cornwall, we should not in accuracy do so, as just stated, for it is a Duchy, and has been such since March 17, 1337, when Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of King Edward III, was created Duke of Cornwall. Nor can it be called a shire, for Cornwall was a territory to itself. In 835 Athelstan drove the Britons across the Tamar and made that river the boundary between the Briton and the West Saxon of Devon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.