CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE: 7 
the fishermen of Cornwall employed all their boats a whole 
Summer in conveying stones to fill up the chasm or hole 
that caused this roaring, which, they alleged, frightened the 
fish to a great distance. 
During a tedious detention of eight days at Falmouth, the 
winds fluctuated every moment in hard squalls, from 
W.S.W. to N. W., with heavy showers of rain, snow, and 
hail; effects ascribable probably to the local situation of this 
harbour, which, being placed nearly at the narrowest part 
of the peninsula of Cornwall, and surrounded by high lands, 
is exposed to the vapours from the Atlantic, and from the 
English and Irish channels ; and these being intercepted and 
condensed by the hills, produce those frequent squalls and 
quick succeeding showers. 
Falmouth is a neat, clean town, built entirely of stone 
found on the spot; its market, which is a commodious 
building of Cornish granite, is exceedingly well supplied 
with meat, poultry, butter, eggs, and vegetables. The 
number of meeting-houses indicate the great majority of the 
inhabitants te be dissenters. ‘The stranger however is most 
forcibly struck by the strong similarity of features in the 
Falmouth females, which consists in plump rounded faces, 
without much expression, but denoting cheerfulness and 
placidity of disposition, while the bloom of their cheeks 
