Ch. XX.] 



ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, CORNWALL. 



541 



which it travels on horseback in about thirty days, to the 

 months of the Khone.' 



Fig. 53. 



View of St. Michael's Mount at high tide, showing the position of the 



harbour and the town of Marazion, E.N.E. of the Mount. 



musenm ol 

 l Falmouth 



Fig. 54. 



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J I \ 1 L 



' Jcot to t/tc trick 



Surface and side views of an ancient block of tin dredged up in Falmouth 



Harbour. 



The block is stamped with a small representation of itself as seen in the lower 



right-hand corner of the drawing. 



Harbour (see fig. 54), having the form, says Sir H. James, 

 which Diodorus might well have compared to a knuckle-bone ; 



