CHAPTER III 

 CORNWALL'S CONNEMARA 



Aspect of the country Gilpin on Cornish scenery The farm-houses 

 Footpaths and stiles Cattle and pigs A friendly sow Dogs 

 and foxes Stony fields Farmers' love of their holdings An 

 old farmer. 



THE coast country at the end or the western 

 extremity of Cornwall presents an aspect wild 

 and rough as any spot in England. The 

 eighty-miles-long county, which some one compares 

 to a malformed knobbly human leg in shape, narrows 

 down near its termination to a neck or ankle of land 

 no more than six or seven miles wide, with St. Ives 

 Bay on one (the north) side, and Mount's Bay on the 

 other, with its group of places of famous or familiar 

 names Mousehole, Newlyn, Penzance, Marazion 

 and St. Michael's Mount. Then the land broadens 

 again, forming that rounded bit of country, the 



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