Embowered Village of Gulval—Kenegie the seat of J. A. Harris Arundel, Esq.—Rosmorran, the retired cottage of George John, Esq., [143].—Ascent to the great Granite ridge, [143].—Castle an Dinas, [144].—Atmospheric Phenomenon, [144].—Saint Ives, [145].—The Pilchard Fishery—Confusion and bustle which are occasioned on the appearance of a shoal, [146].—Natural History of the Pilchard, [147].—Period of its appearance, [148].—How discovered by the Huer, [149].—Necessary outfit for the fishery, [149].—The Great Net, or Stop Seine—How shot, [150].—The quantity of fish usually secured—Tucking, a beautiful sight, [152].—Driving Nets, [153].—Fish brought to the cellars and cured—lying in bulk, [153].—Packed in hogsheads, headed up, and exported, [154].—The great importance of this fishery to the county, [155].—Refuse fish used as manure, [155].—Their fertilizing powers increased by lime, [156].—The Herring Fishery, [156].—Tregenna Castle, the seat of Samuel Stephens, Esq.—Knill's Mausoleum, [157].—Quinquennial Games instituted, [158].—Hayle Sands—The Port of Hayle, [159].—Desolate appearance of the district, [161].—Sand-flood, [162].—Recent Formation of Sandstone, [163].—Investigation of the causes which have operated in consolidating the sand, [166].—Huel Alfred Copper-mine, [169].—The Herland Mines, [170].—Saint Erth—Trevethoe, [171].—Tin Smelting, [173].—Ludgvan Church—The tomb of the venerable and learned Dr. Borlase, [174].
EXCURSION V.
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TO REDRUTH, AND THE MINING DISTRICTS IN ITS
VICINITY.
The country uninteresting to the traveller in search of the picturesque, but affording a rich and instructive field of Mineralogical inquiry, [176].—Antiquity of the Cornish Tin Trade, [177].—Stannary Courts—Copper Ore of comparatively modern discovery, [178].—Lead, Cobalt, and Silver ores, [180].—Average width of the metalliferous veins—Depth of the principal mines, [181].—North and South veins, or Cross Courses, [181].—Heaves of the Lodes—A remarkable instance in Huel Peever, [182].—Costeening, the meaning of the term—Method of Working the Cornish Mines, [183].—Blasting the rock with gunpowder, [186].—Descent into a Mine, [186].—Interior of a Mine, [187].—Temperature of Mines, [189].—Mines considered as property, [190].—Various processes by which the ore is rendered marketable, [191].—Spalling, [191].—Stamping, [192].—Dressing, [193].—Vanning, [194].—Burning, [194].—The Standard Barrow, [195].—Names of Mines, whence derived, [196].—Number of Mines, [196].—Stream Works, [197].—Gold found there, [197].—Clowance, the seat of Sir John St. Aubyn—Pendarves, the seat of E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq.—Tehidy Park, the mansion of Lord de Dunstanville, [198].—Dolcoath Copper Mine, [198].—Cook's Kitchen, [199].—Redruth—The Great Steam Engine at Chacewater, [200].—The Consolidated Mines—Huel Unity—Poldice, [202].—Hints to the Collectors of Cornish Minerals, [202].—Mineralogical Cabinets—That in the possession of Mr. Rashleigh, [203].—Of Mr. Williams's Collection, [206].—Saint Agnes, [208].—Carn-breh Hill—The supposed grand centre of Druidical worship, [209].—Imaginary monuments of the Druids—Their true nature developed, [209].—Cleavelandite found in the porphyritic granite on the summit of the hill, [212].—Carn-breh Castle, [213].
EXCURSION VI.
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TO KYNANCE COVE AND THE LIZARD POINT.
Fundamental Rocks of the Lizard Peninsula, [215].—Alternate beds of Slate and Greenstone at Marazion—Cudden Point—Acton Castle—Pengerswick Castle, [216].—Tregoning, Godolphin, and Breage Hills, [217].—Huel Vor, a great Tin Mine, [218].—Portleven Harbour—Helston, [219].—Its Borough—The ancient and singular festival of the Furry commemorated in this town, [220].—The Furry-day Tune, [222].—Penrose, the seat of John Rogers, Esq., [223].—The Loe Pool, an extensive fresh-water lake, [224].—Interior of the Lizard Peninsula, [225].—Gunwalloe Cove—Bolerium—Mullion Cove—Geology of this line of Coast, [226].—Serpentine Formation—Goonhilly Downs—Erica Vagans, [227].—Soap Rock, [228].—Copper found in this district, [229].—Kynance Cove—Asparagus Island—The Devil's Bellows, [229].—Explanation of the phenomenon, [230].—Lizard Light-houses, [231].—Geology of the Eastern Coast of the Peninsula, [232].—Frying Pan Rocks near Cadgwith, [233].—Diallage Rock—Mr. Majendie's researches in this district, [233].—Coverack Cove, a spot of the highest geological interest, [234].—Professor Sedgwick's Observations thereon, [235].—Tregonwell Mill, the habitat of Menacchanite or Gregorite, [236].—Concluding Remarks, [237].
APPENDIX.
Part I.
A Dialogue, between Dr. A. a Physician, and Mr. B. an Invalid, on the comparative merits of different Climates, as places of Winter residence p. [239]
APPENDIX.
Part II.