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THE BEITISH ISLES. 



Topography. 



Cornwall, tho extreme soutli-western county of England, terminates in the 

 rocky promontories of Land's End and Lizard Point. The greater portion of its 

 area is occupied by wild and barren moorlands, surmounted by bosses of granite 



Fig. 45. — Penzance. 



Scale 1 : .50."),nnf). 



5' 33- 



5*28- W.ofGr 



Foieshore. 



Depth under 5 Fathoms 5 to 10 Fathoms. 10 to 20 Fathoms. 

 1 MUe. 



Over 20 Fathoms. 



and intersected by valleys with boggy bottoms. Mining, quarrying, fishing, and 

 the cultivation of early vegetables constitute the principal sources of wealth. 



Penzance is admirably seated upon the shore of a fine semicircular bay, bounded 

 on the east by the bold serpentine rocks of Lizard Point, and on the west by the 

 heights which extend thence to the Land's End. It is the south-westernmost town 



