

IT. MICHAELS MOUXT : A VERY 



beautiful ca: 



TIDE 



;tle-cro\yxed island at each high 



At low tide a half mile of wet sand and a rocky causeway lay between it and shore. It 

 is approximately a mile in circumference and 230 feet high. Its first tenant was the giant 

 Cormoran. whom Tack-the-Giant-Killer slew, or so 'tis said. Xext were Druids, then Chris- 

 tian hermits, the priory of St. Michael, St. Keyne. finally a feudal castle which belongs to 

 the St. Aubyn family and remains today. Of the earlier tenants there is small trace. The 

 tiny hshing village at the foot of the mount is St. Aubyn's Arms (see text, page 5). 



