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Besides the spots of ground, which have been al- 

 ready reduced to a cultivated state, there is much 

 more on the southern side capable of being made pro- 

 ductive, and it is not improbable, that when Sam has 

 six or seven young Wakehams to lend him a hand, 

 his garden grounds will be made much more exten- 

 sive, and turned to much better account than they 

 are at present. 



There is not a shrub of any kind growing, in a wild 

 state, on the island ; a few currant bushes have been 

 planted in a favorable situation, but present rather a 

 woful sort of appearance. On the highest point of 

 the island, Sam has mounted a flag staff, rather 

 ricketty at present; and has hewn out of the sohd rock 

 a pair of thrones, wherein the lover of nature may sit 

 and indulge his sohtary musings. A magnificent 

 ampitheatre of sea, and a fine sweep of coast lie be- 

 fore him, on one side ; on the other he may turn and 

 gaze on the boundless ocean. 



The extent of view commanded from this spot will be 

 best exemplified by enumerating the principal points : 

 dim in the eastern distance is shadowed the Bolt head, 

 south westward of it may be observed the mouth of the 

 Avon, and the long line of Bigbury bay, receiving the 

 waters of the Erme, but the mouth of this river is hid- 

 den behind the promontory called Stoke Point. The 

 river Yealm is seen winding its way between head- 

 lands into the Sound, nearly opposite the Mewstone; 

 and a httle southward of its mouth stands the lonely 

 church of Wembury ; thence the eye is carried to 

 Bovisand bay and pier; Staddon Heights; Mount 

 Batten; the Hoe; Mount Edgcumbe; Maker 

 Heights, with Kingsand and Cawsand nestling below 

 them ; Pen lee point, the Obelisk, and Adelaide 

 chapel ; Rame head, and its crowning chapel ; Whit- 

 sand bay, and the rugged line of Cornish coast, 

 stretching away to the Lizard Point. 



The Geology of the Mewstone has been noticed 

 by Mr. John Prideaux, in a paper which has been 

 already alluded to, in the " Xnuisnctioiis of the Plv- 



