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and a fresh water trout of a green colour, without scales, Failing 
There is no want of muscles, cray-fish, crabs, shrimps, Bodies 
and other small shell-fish; but they were found very 
inferior to those of in taste. See Byron’s Voy- 
age round the World in 1764, &c. 3 Bougainville’s. Voy- 
in 1766; Pernetty’s History of a Voyage to the 
nes. (q) 
FALLING Bonne, See Dynamics. 
_ FALLING Srones.. See Mereortres. 
FALLOPIAN Tuses. See Anatomy, 
FALLOW.. See Acricunrure. 
_ FALMOUTH, a sea-port town of England in Com 
wall, of modern. erection, its charter being granted. 
bys Ranies. 1, in 09. Its Flap anid inensese pk eet 
owing to the progress of commerce, and par-~ 
i og to the establishment of et boats for aan 
rica, West Indies, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, &c. 
Its harbour is accounted the finest in England, next 
to Pl uth and Milford Haven, and being land~ 
, it affords complete protection in tempestuous 
weather. The town, situated at the bottom of an 
eminence which commands the harbour, consists of 
one street, nearly a mile in length, extending along 
the side of the beach. The pilchard trade is an object 
of considerable importance to this as well as to other 
of Cornwall. Pendennis castle, a building of 
much older date than the town of Falmouth, stands on 
a rock, joined to the main-land by a narrow neck, 
and defends the west entrance into the harbour, The 
rock is three hundred feet above the sea, and 
to rise from the bay like an island. This fortifention 
was begun by Henry VIIL. and improved in some mea- 
sure by Elizabeth, but more by Oliver Cromwell, hay~ 
ing been much damaged during the civil war. It is — 
now modernized, and mounted with seventy pieces of 
cannon. St Mawe’s castle is a much smaller, and less 
remarkable erection, standing on the eastern side. of 
Falmouth harbour, and tracing its, origin likewise to 
Henry VIII. The houses in the neighbourhood, though 
few in number, constitute a Cornish borough, while 
Falmouth, in consequence of its comparative recency of 
wth, is unrepresented in parliament. 
Outside of Falmouth harbour there isa safe and com- 
modious roadstead for vessels of the largest size. It is 
the opinion of many naval men, that the value of Fal- 
Pent as a is not yet fully known. Its great 
lies in its to the Western Ocean, 
oe = of which bai Portsmouth, and even 4] 
outh, is experienced every season by our outwa' 
foul vessels. Now from Falmouth e distance to 
the Lands-end is less than from the Thames to the south 
eens there + shy hay shoals nor pact inetd fre 
way, and it is highly im t to consider, that the 
French side of the Chaxtnel evens on the meridian 
of Falmouth, so that if a vessel going from that port 
gains a Jeague of westing in her southward prog 
she is forthwith received by the ocean. 
‘wind to round to the westward the day after her 
leaving Falmouth, the vessel ‘has still a clear course of 
more four hundred miles to the southward before 
meeting with land, viz. the north-east coast of Spain. 
The difficulty of getting into the ocean from Portsmouth 
or Plymouth, will be apparent on computing the small 
number of days inthe year during whith t 
fair to come down the Channel. On examining a diary, 
‘we shall find that sixty or seventy days in the twelve- 
month are rather above than below the average. In 
1808 the expedition under Sir David Baird sailed from 
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