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with certainty of one ; delightful drives, capital 

 carriages, civil drivers, first-rate sailing boats, 

 with skilful and trustworthy boatmen ; and, above 

 all, there is an extremely mild climate. In Regent 

 Terrace I saw a house covered closely, up as far as 

 the first-floor windows, with a magnificent helio- 

 trope of many years' growth — a tree, in fact — whilst 

 throughout the town giant geraniums, from 15 feet 

 to 20 feet high, splendid myrtles, marguerites, lilies, 

 magnolias, passion flowers, ferns, blue hydrangeas, 

 eunonyma live all the winter through, in a condi- 

 tion that I have never seen equalled in any part of 

 England. A strong competition now exists between 

 the Great Western Railway and the South-Western, 

 and Penzance has already felt the difierence, as the 

 journey has been shortened considerably, and there 

 is no doubt that the time occupied in travelling 

 between Paddington and Penzance will be still 

 further reduced, the one thing wanted in the case 

 of invalid travellers. 



