Drawn by F. Tonkin.
A GVIDE to MOVNTS BAY and LANDS END.
A
GUIDE
TO THE
MOUNT's BAY
AND THE
LAND's END;
TOPOGRAPHY, BOTANY, AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES,
ANTIQUITIES, MINING, MINERALOGY
AND GEOLOGY OF
Western Cornwall.
A DIALOGUE ON THE PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THE CLIMATES
OF PENZANCE, DEVONSHIRE, AND THE
SOUTHERN PARTS OF EUROPE.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. PHILLIPS,
GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET:
SOLD ALSO BY T. VIGURS, PENZANCE; AND W. AND C. TAIT,
EDINBURGH.
THE VICE PATRONS, PRESIDENT,
VICE PRESIDENTS,
AND MEMBERS
OF
The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall,
THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED,
AS A HUMBLE, YET SINCERE TRIBUTE OF RESPECT,
FOR THE ZEAL AND LIBERALITY WITH WHICH THEY CONTINUE
TO UPHOLD
AN INSTITUTION
"WHICH HAS RENDERED THEIR HOME THE SCHOOL OF
SCIENCE,
AND THEIR NATIVE RICHES INCREASING SOURCES
OF PROSPERITY."
TO THE READER.
This little volume has been republished, atthe earnest solicitation of numerous friends andapplicants, and with such additions and improvementsas the present extended state of informationappeared to render necessary. In obeying thiscall, the author trusts that he may, in somedegree, remove the prejudice to which the carelessnessof his provincial compositor must, onthe former occasion, have exposed the work.
Since the publication of the first Edition,Penzance, and the District of the Mount's Bay,have become objects of greatly increased interest;the successful establishment of the GeologicalSociety,—the erection of commodious Sea Baths,—thegrowing confidence of the Public, and of[vi]the medical profession, in the superior mildnessof the climate,—and the general amelioration ofevery thing connected with the wants and comfortsof a winter residence, have powerfullyoperated in augmenting the influx of strangersand invalids, into this formerly obscure, andcomparatively neglected district. Such considerations,it will be acknowledged, were quite sufficientto sanction the propriety and expediency