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 peninsulaof 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 to 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 



