CHAPTER X 

 AN IMPRESSION OF PENZANCE 



Value of first impressions Market day in Penzance Cornish cows 

 The main thoroughfare Characteristics Temperance in drink 

 A foreigner on English drinking habits Irish intemperance 

 The craving for drink False ideas Wales Methodism and 

 temperance Carew's testimony Conclusion. 



PLACES are like faces a first sight is almost 

 invariably the one that tells you most. When 

 the first sharp, clear impression has grown 

 blurred, or is half forgotten or overlaid with sub- 

 sequent impressions, we have as a rule lost more than 

 we have gained : it is hardly too much to say in a 

 majority of instances that the more familiar a place 

 becomes to us the less well we know it. At all events 

 we have ceased to know it in the same way ; we no 

 longer vividly, consciously, see it in its distinctive 

 character. 



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