Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-10-28
Loo Pool IN Cornwall

Helston must be visited BY every tour
ist in Cornwall, for the sake of the grand
the almost unrivrlled scenery TO be mel
with near it. The town is not only the
best starting point from which to explore
the noble line of coast rocks which end.
at the Lizard Head but possesses the
further recommendation of living in the
immediate vicinity of the largest lake in
Cornwall.
The banks of Loo Pool stretch on eitb
er side to the length of two miles the
lake, which in summer occupies little
more than half the space that it does in
winter, is formed by the flow of two OF
three small streams. You first reach il
from Helston, after walk of half a mile;
and then see before you, on either hand.
long ranges of hills, risI.g gently from
the waters edge, covered with clustering
trees, or occupied by wide corn fields and
sloping tracts OF common land. So far,
the scenery around Loo Pool resembles
the scenery around other lakes but as
you proceed, the view changes in the
most striking and extraordinary manner.
! Walking along on the winding banks OF
| the pool. you taste the water and find il
soft and fresh. you see ducks swimming
about in it from the neighborrng farm
houses. you watch the rising of the fine
trout for which il IS celebrated-everyo OBJ
Jects tends TO convince you that YOU are
wandering by the shores of an inland
lake-when suddenly AT turn in the hill
slope, you are startled by the shrill cry of
the gull, and the fierce roar of the break
ers thunders on your ear-you look ouer
the light grey, placid waters of the lake,
and behold, stretching Immediately above
and beyond them, the expanse of the
deep blue ocean, from which they are
only separated by mere strip of smooth
white sand
You hurry on, and reach ths bar of
sand which parts the great English Chan
mel and the little Loo Pool-a child |
m ight run across it in, a minute You
stand in the centre-on one side, close at
hand, water is dancing beneath the
breeze in CLASSY, tiny ripples; on the 9TH
er, equally close, water rolls in mighty /
waves. precipitated ON the ground in
dashing, kissing; writhiDg floods of the
whitest foam-here children are floating
mimic ships on mimic sea; the statliest
ships of England are sailing over the
great deep-both scenes visible in one
view. Rocky cliffs and arid sands appear
in close combination with rounded fer
tile hills, and long grassy slopes salt
spray leaping over the first, spring water
lying calm-beneath the last. No fairy
vision of Nature that was ever imagined
is more fantastic, or more lovely than
this glorious reality. which brings all the !
most widely contrasted characteristics of
4 sea view and an inland lake view into
the closest contact, and presents them in .
he most harmonious picture to the eye !
The ridge of sand between Loo Pool !
and the sea which, by impeding the flow
of the inland streams, spreads them in
he form of a lake over the underground !
two hills, Is formed by the action ,
If storms from the southwest Such, at
east, is the modern explanation of the
manner in which Loo Bar was heaped up.
But there is an ancient legend in con-
lection with ii. which tells widely diff
erent story. Ii is said that the terrible
Jornish giant, or ogre, Tregeagle, was
rudging homewards one day. carrying
luge sack of sand on his back. which
being giant of neat and cleanly habits
le designed should serve him for sprink- I
ing his parlor floor. As he was passing
Ilong the top of the hills which now over
ook LOO Fool, ne heard SOUND OF scam
,ering footsteps behind him; and, turn
ng round, saw that he was hotly pursued
~ no less a person than the devil himself. ]
Big as he was, Tregeagle, lost heart and {
took to his heels; but the
levil ran nimbly, ran steadily, ran with
'ut losing breath-ran, in short, Ike the J
levil. Tregeagle was fat, short-winded, {
lad load on his back, and lost ground F.,
t every step. At last, just as he reached !
he seaward extremity of the hills, he de {
ermined. in despair, to tighten himself I
{ his burden and thus to seize the only {
hance of escaping his enemy by superior j
eetness of foot. Accordingly. he opened '
lis huge sack in a great hurry, shook out |
II his sand over the precipice, between I
he sea and the river which then ran into {
!, and so formed in a moment the Bar of j
900 Pool.-iSighLs AfoOt {