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FROM PLYMOUTH TO PENZANOT5.
Route 1.
365*
the town—one dedicated to St. Mary, consecrated in 1836; and
a recent building of granite, and in the Early English style, from
th« designs of Mr. Matthews of Penzance, erected in 1835 at a
cost of <£5000—defrayed by the Rev. H. Batten, and dedicated
to St. Paul.
The Town Hall is a modern semi-classical structure of granite,
surmounted by a dome, which contains the collections of the
Penwith Natural History Society, open to the public on market-
days. The Esplanade affords a delightful promenade, and is
ornamented by a Russian trophy—a 36-pounder gun, captured
at Bomarsund. The Harbour, 22 feet deep at high water, is
protected by a battery erected in 1858. Nearly opposite stands
the railway terminus,—the line defended by a massive sea-wall,
and beyond extend the two arms of the Pier—the east constructed
in 1845, the west in 1772.
In 1814, and through the exertions of the late eminent phy¬
sician Dr. Paris, was founded the Royal Geological Society of
Cornwall, whose published “ Transactions ” should be duly esti¬
mated by every “ geological tourist.” Its Museum contains several
thousand specimens of rare and valuable minerals; a fine collec¬
tion of Cornish fossils ; and models illustrative of mining opera¬
tions. At Bavin’s Museum, Chapel Street, the amateur may
select from a large stock of fossils and minerals. Serpentine and
steatite, brought from the Lizard Point, are manufactured here
into ornaments of all kinds.
The principal gentlemen’s seats in the neighbourhood are—
Trevaylor (Rev. W. Yeale), just beyond Hea, north of Penzance.
Nancealverne (J. Scobell, Esq.), on the Madron road. Rose
Hill (Louis Vigurs, Esq.) Castle Horneck (Samuel Borlase,
Esq.) Larrigan (W. Borlase, Esq.), near Madron. Ponsondine
(W. Bolitho, Esq.), near Chyandour. Pendrea (J. Bolitho, Esq.)
Trengwainton (Mrs. Davy), beyond Madron. Kenegie (W.
Coulson, Esq.), north of Gulval. Trereife (D. P. Le Grice,
Esq.), west of Penzance. Trewithin (E. Bolitho, Esq.), near
Trereife.
[The RAMBLES in the neighbourhood should include visits to—1. Gulval and
Ludgvan ; 2. Madron ; 3. Mousehole and Lamorna Cove ; 4. To the Land’s End
by way of St. Paul, St. Bukyan, St. Levan and the Cliffs: 5. The Coast from
Penzance to the Lizard Point. We shall now describe them in detail
1. To Gulval we proceed by way of Chyandour, lying east of the town, and
boasting of a camp-crowned hill, called Lescaddoc Castle. Turning to the right
we descend into a leafy hollow, very romantically beset with bough and branch, and