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The North Coast of Cornwall; Its Scenery, Its People, Its Antiquities and Its Legends
The North Coast of Cornwall Its Scenery Its People Its Antiquities and Its Legends Author:John Lloyd Warden Page General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: W. C. Hemmons Subjects: Cornwall (England) Cornwall (England : County) Fiction / Sagas Fiction / Historical History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR ... more »reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. BUDE BAY. Stanbury Mouth -- Duck Pool-kilkhampton-The Gren- Villes -- The Battle Of Stamford Hill -- Bude -- The BreakWater And Chapel Rock -- The Canal-Compass Point-The Bude Mermaid -- Widemouth Bay -- Millook -- The Dazard -- St. Gennys-a Cliff Castle -- The Braddons Of Treworgye -- St. Genesius -- Wanted, An Inn. "All down the thundering shore of Bude and Boss." -- Tennyson. The walk from Morwenstow to Bude is -- for the Cornish coast -- fairly easy, and only one or two valleys of any magnitude have to be -- as an old fellow once told us of other Cornish vales -- " competed with." (I suppose he meant " contended with," but it doesn't matter.) The first of these is Stanbury Mouth, guarded by towering cliffs with strata strangely contorted, more contorted, perhaps, than any other cliffs this side of Hartland. For the precipices of Hartland, as all geologists know, are unique in the West, their faces being nothing but curves and zigzags caused by the erratic manner in which they have been upthrust by Dame Nature. 44 KILKHAMPTON. Between two and three miles further on, beyond Lower Sharpnose Point, we reach another valley, a valley hemmed in between hills as steep as those of Marsland. It is not unlike Marsland either, for oaks fill the head of it, and a trout steam winds down the bottom to the sea. But there are, happily, no thickets; indeed, the valley from e...« less