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curious provision is made to protect them from the dangers of the 
narrow channel. A number of short stout posts some two feet in 
diameter, and only two or three yards from each other, are firmly fixed 
in the ground on the southern side of the harbour near its sea end. ° 
Thick cables are passed to any vessel entering in rough weather, and 
worked round these posts successively to prevent the vessel being 
dashed by the waves against the northern shore of the channel on to 
which they roll their great masses. It is a curious sight to see a vessel , 
thus warped in. (See Jilustration Boscastle Harbour). Forrabury 
is the real name of the Boscastle village, the latter name referring 
merely to the ancient Castle of Bottreaux, which has now only 
a few ruinous rooms to mark its former importance. The church 
at Forrabury is in the early Perpendicular style. A granite cross 
at the foot of the rise, on which the Church stands, as well as the 
font, are said to be ancient. The chancel screen and pulpit are also 
old, but more modern and worth noticing. The walk along the cliffs 
vid Trevalga and Bossiney to Travenna was most interesting. The 
exhilarating effects of the fresh sea breeze tempt one to loiter on the 
summits of the cliffs, and to listen to the waves dashing with booming 
sound into the caverns below, which here and there have been hollowed 
to a depth of hundreds of feet by their incessant action ; and in which 
numerous seals disport themselves, as well as on the frequent rocky 
islets, and are occasionally caught by the fishermen. The pretty Church 
at Trevalga with its curious old fresco paintings was visited by the 
Club. Another of the ancient crosses, and a very remarkable 
one, was also here observed, but no one could give any explanation 
regarding it. It appeared to be of the same greenish grey rock as the 
stone lying in the roadway, and called King Arthur's Quoit, which that 
potentate is supposed 1o have thrown from Tintagel Castle, about two 
and ahalf or three miles away. The “Quoit” is about four feet in 
diameter and a foot thick, and appears to have been a nether millstone, 
in which a beam had been worked round and round perpendicularly by 
a horse or bullock, till the centre had been worn through, thus giving 
the semblance of a quoit. Mills of this nature are universally used in 
the east to this day for pressing oil seeds. A visit to Knighton’s Kieve 
diversified the walk. This is a picturesque waterfall of about 40 feet 
high, but with no great body of water, its interest consisting in the 
wild beauty of falling water set in a casket of luxuriant golden ferns 
