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قراءة كتاب A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall
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A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall
href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@48116@[email protected]#Page_136" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">136.—Little Bounds Mine, 136.—Its workings under the sea, 137.—Curious Stalactites found there, 138.—Caraglose Head, a spot well worthy the stranger's notice, 138.—Portnanvon Cove, 139.—Saint Just Church Town, 139.—Ancient Amphitheatre, where Tournaments are held at this very day, 140.—Botallack circles, 140.—Antiquarian speculations, 141.
Embowered Village of Gulval—Kenegie the seat of J. A. Harris Arundel, Esq.—Rosmorran, the retired cottage of George John, Esq., 143.—Ascent to the great Granite ridge, 143.—Castle an Dinas, 144.—Atmospheric Phenomenon, 144.—Saint Ives, 145.—The Pilchard Fishery—Confusion and bustle which are occasioned on the appearance of a shoal, 146.—Natural History of the Pilchard, 147.—Period of its appearance, 148.—How discovered by the Huer, 149.—Necessary outfit for the fishery, 149.—The Great Net, or Stop Seine—How shot, 150.—The quantity of fish usually secured—Tucking, a beautiful sight, 152.—Driving Nets, 153.—Fish brought to the cellars and cured—lying in bulk, 153.—Packed in hogsheads, headed up, and exported, 154.—The great importance of this fishery to the county, 155.—Refuse fish used as manure, 155.—Their fertilizing powers increased by lime, 156.—The Herring Fishery, 156.—Tregenna Castle, the seat of Samuel Stephens, Esq.—Knill's Mausoleum, 157.—Quinquennial Games instituted, 158.—Hayle Sands—The Port of Hayle, 159.—Desolate appearance of the district, 161.—Sand-flood, 162.—Recent Formation of Sandstone, 163.—Investigation of the causes which have operated in consolidating the sand, 166.—Huel Alfred Copper-mine, 169.—The Herland Mines, 170.—Saint Erth—Trevethoe, 171.—Tin Smelting,