href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@48116@[email protected]#Page_22" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">22.—Its situation most beautiful.—Extraordinary fertility of the neighbouring lands, 23.—Corporation—Pier—Chapel—Meeting Houses, 24.—Penzance a Coinage Town, 25.—Public Dispensary, 25.—Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 26.—Its Cabinet of Minerals, 27.—Laboratory, 29.—Accidents from explosion in Mines prevented by the scientific efforts of the Society, 30.—Mineralogical Collection of Joseph Carne, Esq. 31.—Penwith Agricultural Society, 32.—Penzance Market, 33.—Wild fowl and fish abundant and cheap,—Newlyn Fish-women remarkable for their beauty, 33.—Public Hot and Cold Sea Baths, 34.—Beautiful prospect from the waiting room, 35.—Packet to Scilly, 35.—Ancient Customs—Festivities at Midsummer, 36.—Penzance remarkable in history from having been burnt by the Spaniards, 38.—Tobacco first smoked in this town, 39.—The birth place of Sir Humphry Davy, 40.—List of Indigenous Plants of Western Cornwall, 41, &c.

An object of the very first interest—Excursion by water—By land, 45.—The Eastern Green celebrated as the habitat of some rare plants, 46.—Marazion, or Market Jew, 47.—Its origin and Charter, 47.—Chapel Rock, 48.—Arrival at Saint Michael's Mount, 49.—Conical form of the hill—Its dimensions—Town at its base—The Pier—Interesting as a geological object, 50.—Why—Its scenery most magnificent—Geological structure, 51.—Militates against the Wernerian doctrines—De Luc's improbable explanation, 51.—Dr. Berger's gratuitous assumption, 52.—Plutonian views, 52.—Western base of the Mount—Beds of Granite, 53.—Quartz veins—Interesting contents of the veins, 55.—Pinite discovered in this spot, 55.—Other minerals, 56.—Lodes of Tin and Copper—Remains of a Tin Mine—Veins of Mica, 57.—The Tamarisk, 57.—Ascent to the Castle,