CHAPTER XI 

 MANNERS AND MORALS 



Carew's Survey of Cornwall Books on Cornwall Excessive praise 

 and dispraise Saxon and Celt Charge of insincerity "One- 

 and-all " spirit Dishonesty Untruthfulness An Englishman's 

 view of the Welsh The question of immorality Cruelty to animals 

 Offences unpunished Cornish civilisation a "veneer" Wreck- 

 ing and what it means Sunday observance Cornish and English 

 consistency Englishmen who understand. 



cc A FTER having marched over the land, and 



A\ waded through the sea, to describe all the 



creatures therein, insensible and sensible, the 



course of method summoneth me to discourse of 



the reasonable, to wit, the inhabitants." 



Thus said Richard Carew in his Survey of Cornwall, 

 written at the end of the sixteenth century. I have 

 no course of method, nor any order in which to 

 record these impressions of rocks and waters and 

 birds and flowers, or any other thing, insensible or 



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