Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE CORNISH COAST
(SOUTH)

WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER

=The Portsmouth Road=, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.

=The Dover Road=: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

=The Bath Road=: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.

=The Exeter Road=: The Story of the West of England Highway.

=The Great North Road=: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

=The Norwich Road=: An East Anglian Highway.

=The Holyhead Road=: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

=The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road=: The Great Fenland Highway.

=The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road=: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

=The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road=: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.

=The Brighton Road=: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

=The Hastings Road= and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."

=Cycle Rides Round London.=

=A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.=

=Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore.= Two Vols.

=The Ingoldsby Country=: Literary Landmarks of "The Ingoldsby Legends."

=The Hardy Country=: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

=The Dorset Coast.=

=The South Devon Coast.=

=The Old Inns of Old England.= Two Vols.

=Love in the Harbour=: a Longshore Comedy.

=Rural Nooks Round London= (Middlesex and Surrey).

=Haunted Houses=: Tales of the Supernatural.

=The Manchester and Glasgow Road.= This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols.

=The North Devon Coast.=

=Half-Hours with the Highwaymen.= Two Vols.

=The Autocar Road Book.= Four Vols.

=The Tower Of London=: Fortress, Palace, and Prison.

=The Somerset Coast.=

=The Smugglers=: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft.

=The Cornish Coast.= North.

=Thames Valley Villages.= [_In the Press._

_Gibson & Sons, Penzance._]

WRECK OF THE _BLUEJACKET_, ON THE LONGSHIPS.]

=THE CORNISH COAST
(SOUTH)
And the Isles of Scilly=

BY
CHARLES G. HARPER

"_Here smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed_"
GOLDSMITH

LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD.
1910

PRINTED AND BOUND BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
NEW BRIDGE--THE TAMAR--MORWELL
ROCKS--CALSTOCK--COTHELE--PENTILLIE--LANDULPH 1

CHAPTER II
SALTASH--SALTASH BRIDGE--TREMATON CASTLE--ST.
GERMANS--ANTONY--RAME--MOUNT EDGCUMBE--MILLBROOK 18

CHAPTER III
DOWNDERRY--LOOE--TALLAND--POLPERRO--LANTEGLOS-JUXTA-FOWEY 33

CHAPTER IV
FOWEY--THE FOWEY RIVER--ST. VEEP--GOLANT--LERRIN--ST.
WINNOW--LOSTWITHIEL 50

CHAPTER V
POLKERRIS--MENABILLY--PAR--THE BISCOVEY STONE--CHARLESTOWN,
ST. AUSTELL, AND THE CHINA-CLAY INDUSTRY--THE MENGU
STONE--PORTHPEAN--MEVAGISSEY--ST. MICHAEL
CAERHAYES--VERYAN--GERRANS--ST. ANTHONY-IN-ROSELAND 63

CHAPTER VI
ROSELAND--ST. MAWES--FALMOUTH 83

CHAPTER VII
FLUSHING--PENRYN AND THE KILLIGREW LADIES--MYLOR--ST.
JUST-IN-ROSELAND--RESTRONGUET CREEK, DEVORAN AND ST.
FEOCK--KING HARRY PASSAGE--RUAN CREEK--MALPAS--TRESILIAN
CREEK AND THE SURRENDER OF THE CORNISH ARMY 99

CHAPTER VIII
TRURO 115

CHAPTER IX
MAWNAN--HELFORD RIVER--MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE--MANACCAN--ST.
ANTHONY-IN-ROSELAND--THE MANACLES ROCKS--WRECK OF THE
"MOHEGAN"--ST. KEVERNE 123

CHAPTER X
COVERACK COVE--POLTESCO--RUAN MINOR--CADGWITH COVE--THE
"DEVIL'S FRYING-PAN"--DOLOR HUGO--CHURCH
COVE--LANDEWEDNACK--LIZARD TOWN--RUAN MAJOR--THE LIZARD
LIGHTHOUSE 142

CHAPTER XI
KYNANCE COVE--ASPARAGUS ISLAND--THE DEVIL'S
POST-OFFICE--SIGNPOSTS--GUE GRAZE--MULLION
COVE--WRECK OF THE "JONKHEER"--MARY MUNDY AND THE "OLD INN" 159

CHAPTER XII
POLDHU AND THE MARCONI STATION--MODERN CORNWALL--GUNWALLOE--THE
"DOLLAR WRECK"--WRECK OF THE "BRANKELOW"; WRECKS OF THE "SUSAN
AND REBECCA" AND OF H.M.S. "ANSON"--LOE BAR AND POOL--HELSTON
AND ITS "FURRY"--PORTHLEVEN--BREAGE--WRECK OF THE
"NOISIEL"--PENGERSICK CASTLE 176

CHAPTER XIII
PRUSSIA COVE AND ITS SMUGGLERS--PERRANUTHNOE--ST.
HILARY--MARAZION--ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT--LUDGVAN--GULVAL 193

CHAPTER XIV
PENZANCE--NEWLYN AND THE "NEWLYN SCHOOL"--PAUL--DOLLY
PENTREATH--MOUSEHOLE--LAMORNA--TREWOOFE AND THE LEVELIS
FAMILY--BOLEIT--THE "MERRY MAIDENS"--PENBERTH COVE 216

CHAPTER XV
THE LOGAN ROCK AND ITS STORY--PORTHCURNO AND THE TELEGRAPH
STATION--ST. LEVAN--PORTH GWARRA--TOL-PEDN-PENWITH--CHAIR
LADDER--LAND'S END 232

CHAPTER XVI
THE LAND'S END DISTRICT--ST. BURYAN--SENNEN--LAND'S
END--THE LONGSHIPS LIGHTHOUSE 247