Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-23

TRURO, CORNWALL. June 4.-Almost until
to-day, as time is measured. Cornwall has
been to the remainder of England VERT
able terra incognita, ''West Barbaryi it
was contemptuously called to describe its
uncanniness its supposed ignorance and
It's popularity accredited -barbarism.
What weird and desolate Connamara in
lrelands wild west, is and has always been
to the green isle, this scared and ragged
peninsula has been to England.
OF its 100000 souls, one-tenth, from
youth to death, in darkness pick and blast
In shift and drift beneath its wind-swept
moors. Until century since distinct
language, the Cornubian Celtic, was
spoken taught and preached To-day III
some of the larger towns ''the purest Eng
lish spoken" is said to prevail, but again
to-day not league from these towns,
among iisher,folks, miners and peasants,
an ordinary EngliShman or American can
scarcely understand Il word uttered. Vet
here are life and scene of the greatest
fascination; both life and scene Of sim
plicity, beauty and grandeur while ro-
nance and legend glow wondrously in
every tor. combe and stream; romance
and legend the oldest and most winsome
In all England. Here lived, or were born
70 deathless legend; Arthur, Launcelot and
Guinevere, and the brave old Round Table
knights.
It's curious shaped bit of land, this
rugged old Cornwall. Its geographic con-
tour suggests the strange silhouette of some
couchant gigantic mastiff or huge wild
beast. II is easy to see in its southernmost
outreaching its two powerful fore feet. In
It's northern coast line will be found its
braced and bristling back In its most
northern projection will be seen an erect
and defiant tail. In its eastern Deyonshire
boundary are its massive launches and
hind feet wedged against the eternal granite
IaUnn 4 ri ham ST Eilt.
ocean-battling promontory is the open
mouth of the stone leyiathan, set savagely
towards the seething Scilly Isles. forever
dashed with spume and frme Of its inter
mlnable battles with the Atlantic.
Were you to stand, as have done on
Hensbarrow one of its drear and highest
peaks, you could see smiling Devon to the
east; almost to Lands End its farthest
westward wall, to Lizard Head its re-
hottest southern headand; across its entire
reach of hills and moorlands far out upon
-. Georges Channel TO the northwest; and
over the white sails Of fisher and coaster
TO the southeast, even TO the dim cone of
that most wondrous Of all mariners
beacons, the splendid Eddystone light.
house.
But standing on that spot little else than
apparent DISSOLUTION meets the eve The
moorlands stretch dolorously as if in
boundless loneliness. The tors or hills
nature seems torn and SCARED, as il by
tremendous elemental struggles. Vet all
these caverns and chasms which dsiglire
IT were made by the hand of man. Its
granite, shale and slate hide copper tin
and iron. For more than 5000 Years lis
surface has been cleft and its depths gored
and bored until its face is pitted as if with
extinct volcanoes, whose bases were
honeycombed, sometimes 10 a mile.
depth, and often laterally, so far outward
beneath the ocean, that its very shell wa,
cracked and broken. until to prevent tn,
sea dropping through, the bottom wa.
stuffed and plugged and soldered like /
leaky old basin.
This is what you will see and feel ant
know among the downs and tors along III,
roc.y backbone of Cornwall. But alonl
the north coast, in summer, and every
where upon the south coast in SUMMER
and nearly all winter, are never-endinl
surprises Of scenic beauty. Indeed iii
entire south English and Irish coasts ar
almost semi-troPic lands. Semi-tropic bit
OF land surely can be found for / hay
seen at Bournemouth, at Torquay and a
Plymouth, IN England, at Truro, Fal
mouth and fenzance in Cornwall, and d
I.oughal, alongside Sir Walter Raleigh
old home, in ireland, roses in full bloom
and luxuriantly fol;aged myrtle, ont o
doors in mid-winter.
Along the way | am leisurey trampinq
with the English channel nearly alway
in sight, are innumerable Cornish valley
Of slumperous beauty, Tiny burns N
co frh ~ w tiitoush tne walls by U
90 s;,',,;,,,' 81, S'.aS pHe HiilIed stream
Along the valley sides are white hamlet
or the quaint old homes, the rich acr,
and the sleek herds Of the thrifty farme
of Cornwall.
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