SMEATON'S HARBOURS. 



TART VI. 



PJLAN OF ST. IVES HARBOUR. 



enclosed in a bay between two headlands, one of which 

 was formed by " the Island," and the other by Penolver 

 Point, as shown in the annexed plan. It was thus well 



protected from 

 the north, west, 

 and south, and 

 from the preva- 

 lent storms along 

 that coast, which 

 mostly blow from 

 a south-westerly 

 direction. All 

 that was wanted 

 to give shelter for 

 shipping from the 

 remaining quar- 

 ters, the east and 

 north-east, was the provision of a pier running nearly 

 south from Castle Point. The works were carried out 

 after Smeaton's design ; and as the port is the seat of 

 considerable trade, arising from the pilchard fishery and 

 the mining operations of the country inland, the faci- 

 lities thereby provided for shipping, and the protection 

 to navigation along that coast, proved of great advantage 

 to the district. 



Our engineer was also consulted respecting numerous 

 other harbours : Whitehaven, Workington, and Bristol, 

 on the west coast; Christchurch, Rye, and Dover, on 

 the south ; and Yarmouth, Lynn, Scarborough, and Sun- 

 derland, on the east ; but in nearly every case want of 

 money prevented the improvements suggested by him 

 from being fully carried out. This was pre-eminently 

 the case at Bristol, where the merchants gave him an 

 unanimous " vote of thanks " for his report and plan for 

 keeping the ships at the quay constantly afloat by dock- 

 ing the river, and also for enlarging the harbour by a 

 new canal through Cannon's Marsh. But nothing was 



