^8 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



County, are almost intersected by a mountainous re- 

 gion, the main trunk of this intersection serving al- 

 most like the vertebral column of the human body, to 

 give stability to a structure that might otherwise 

 seem but too slender. If the Tourist through Corn- 

 wall leaves the ancient and picturesque town of Laun- 

 ceston, and proceeds towards Liskeard, he will at the 

 distance of about eight miles from the former, and 

 about six from the latter, arrive at the foot of that 

 chain of hills which may be regarded as the extremity 

 of the great moor district towards the East.* On the 

 most Southern flank of the range he may ascend the 

 highest of these eminences, which is Caradon. Follow- 

 ing the course of the chain, he will then successively ar- 

 rive at the several Tors known by the names, ' Chees e- 

 wring,'  Sharp-Tor,* ' Kilmar,' and * Hawks-Tor.' The 

 distant view of this group of hills is from various 



* Hengist, or Kingston down, again occurs at the distance 

 of six miles due East; but Kit-hill, as the summit of this Down 

 is called, is what Geologists term an outlier. It is a granitic 

 elevation, 1000 feet above the level of the sea, but has no 

 connection with either of the Dartmoor or Cornish granite 

 chains ; it stands as it were in the centre of the basin of land 

 that interposes between these chains in an isolated position, 

 commanding very extensive and beautiful views. 



