href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@48116@[email protected]#Page_57" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">57.—Ancient Fortifications—The Chevychace room, 58.—The Chapel, 59.—Mysterious discovery in the Chapel, 59.—More Discoveries—Ascent to the top of the tower—Prospect hence of the grandest description, 60.—Saint Michael's Chair—Its origin and supposed mystic powers—A remnant of Monkish fable, 61.—The modern Apartments, 62.—The Natural History of the Hill—Formerly cloathed with wood—Its old Cornish appellation, 62.—Once at a distance from the sea, 63.—Ecclesiastical History—Monkish Legends of the vision of Saint Michael, 63.—Saint Keyne's Pilgrimage to the Mount in the fifth century, 64.—The Confessor's Endowment, 65.—Ancient instrument A.D. 1070 found amongst its registers, 65.—Annexed to a Norman Priory at the Conquest, 66.—The Nunnery—Its establishment broken up—The connection of the Priory with Normandy destroyed, 67.—Granted by Henry the Sixth to King's College Cambridge, 67.—Transferred by Edward IV. to the Nunnery of Sion in Middlesex, 68.—Bestowed upon Lord Arundel at the Reformation, 68.—Its Private History continued, 69.—Military History.—Pomeroy's Treachery—Monks expelled—Monks restored, 70.—The Mount is again reduced by the Earl of Oxford, 71.—who in his turn is compelled to surrender to the forces of Edward the Fourth, 71.—The Lady Catherine Gordon, wife of Perkin Warbeck, flies to the Mount for safety, 71.—Besieged by the Cornish rebels in the reign of Edward VI., 71.—Reduced by Colonel Hammond during the Civil war of Charles the First, 72.—The Mount supposed by Sir Christopher Hawkins and Dr. Maton to be the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, 73.

Intermediate objects worthy of notice, 74.—Castle Horneck, 75.—Rose Hill—Trereiffe, 76.—The country wild but susceptible of cultivation, 77.—Furze—Boulders of Granite, 77.—Capable of numerous applications in rural œconomy, 78.—Cornish Granite, (provincially, Growan), when in a state of decomposition is used as a manure, 79.—Theory of its operation, 79.—Form of the Felspar crystals, 79.—State of Agriculture—The Farm of John Scobell, Esq. at Leha, 80.—Arish Mows, public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@48116@[email protected]#Page_81" class="pginternal"