Show aate En glands on 11 an ti 1 I essa ja X kf IX 10 axi Y M y lands and end Southern mft tip of england fl Prepared by th national ge r ahlo so society elty W 9 D C r j coast of south TIE western abat tapers J out to lands end Is an unfriendly Y coast its heavy he sea a and winds and thick fop fogs and ami a t dangerous 0 one e its rocks rock s ate are ever r ready eady to tear holes in the sto lite st vessel its curien tn are ever ready to drive them on hut flat it Is picturesque coast a wonderfully beautiful coast both upon sinna Pr days and in winter storms stor ins a ca colht tat with many harbors none too easy early of t eo er trance Arance by reason ot of rocks and tides many impossible for any but tile the smallest craft hut but all made as os serviceable e as natural permit there Is Pen pance the sunny ure loving little sen cly whence came those picturesque stage stage Ji arut aliat made tun tuneful eaul our youth abi ati foat 1 Is 19 9 no wore more beautiful there on mounts alls jany bai than elsewhere to oust enst or west not so GO rugged or so 80 wild as 05 on cornwall e northern shore shote but e of green cliff ls is art frt vt asi n sma smoot ato sid a d lovely tile the sun shines wa warmly rinty tile the roses bloom every lily baby ripple murmurs a sea story Z every tiny breeze brt eza bangs a legend it is 1 ft fascinating place not ony only fur laatt it Is it suggests there Is little alouse pole on her right beyond lo vely new ha beloved of fishera and arelita art lita mousehole Mouse bole in local cal speech was an important port before london WAS a town ton n As for Mar moravian axion to who shall ver yeara yenry Ace according to cornish history elin in Alic le daya of eze hicl thep it already an cit city to clan merchants came for tin aorl foran town which has anns nid glants and hils looked for centuries at I a castled 1 cluied blont ing in a marielou marve marv elou loiK seh Is au faull no ond one boea there except to visit the island which hleb gives the bay its fiame name df michaels Michael 8 mount st michaels Mithat PH mount little brother to mont st off br the areton ts Is 4 a rocky islet feet high bah arid and a half nille mile roro shore with w alch it li Is cohne ciet b by a chu nu sewn seway uncovered J for a out ra hours af ord ordinary pary low t aldes 11 OIL 1 southwest gales ill the island abw may f main an bisland island for weeke and anda wp with high seas be inaccessible edeli even to boats it ts Is a most picturesque pile its steep grassy slopes in springtime time yellow with a mill million toR dalTo daffodils dils c crowned ro W n with the irregular jumble of 0 chapel and castle and ringed by a gleaming sea it has bus much history like dice the other S michael bli elisel it stood once in a forest and was pagan christian it has been tenanted ten anted by saint and sinner soldier monk and knight dearest to the heart perhaps Is the story of corcoran Cor Vor moran whom later jack the glant killer slew blew dearest perhaps because odthe of the memories of little littie girls and boys wh who loved the story lory long ago we may follow the coastline coast line eastward and southward to the milzard passing the great wireless station upon or cut across the little rieck neck of land to falmouth ral mouth a very fali fair I 1 barbor arbor beyond la Is but a fishing port where pilchards hards sometimes become sardines but to which we nert come has considerable past fm importance and present pride once it was one odthe great seaports of the kIng kingdom kinghorn dorn deals from lrowe fowe sailed nailed by bv scores to the cro eades to the sit ge of calais to the plundering of normandy bowey fowey ghi gallants lants swaggered on nil all the then known seas and when not buy bussy with strangers turned to trimming their rivals nearer homei home finally they were were accused of piracy and edward IV confiscated their ships and gave gov ethern them to dartmouth 1 eastward stward En fowdy upon the ilie coast tn in cleft to BO narrow so BO jagged FOT lotocky BO one erff eri why men dhosi chose tt ii for a home alea the most picturesque the most unspoiled ie of fishing ports ret retaining aliling till all its ancient dignity of life mind labor by bi the I 1 he villas now beginning to 0 o crowd the dins above its ita bi hod llad polperro Pol perro a charming place polperro Pol perro Is in a ni ailin lin town but it irl did not hot atway depend upon fish for ot 1 lit aking liag in the ifie days when tax ta a pr ofelon if not an art pol perro b bad ad few rivals and reading 1 old tales oue sees sa anito clearly why men chose tile clefts for habitations conveniently near are coves and cinas ei undiscoverable by the keenest cu customs officers aal boatmen could hall tp ip and out of teelie narrow rockbound harbove fearing coring no pur pursuit sult itt wa H look lk attentively at polperro Pol perro a at t its ita closely huddled houses built on 11 and nd lu in and of the lie roc rock its roses arild fucI and clematis which bloom as is as in southern clinies for or these rock clefts art are sheltered from winter winds and warmed ly by the southern sun UD at its little yoek rock bound gleaming harbor where ni at high tide the bouts boats rock lazily and lit at low water I a thousand silvery gulls pick up their dainty feet discreetly in tile hie 0 oie at its ita steep slippery cliffs when one has such glorious breezy views of sen and rock and headland and of tile the w warm a rm sheltered valley it at ones one feet polperro Pol perro attends to its own business and that does not include catering to tourists there are always artists at Pol polperro perro they and the fb hermen observe each other become friends perhaps but business Is not mentioned between them Cli chivelly velly fills a rock roch deft on the north devon shore as Pol polperro perro does upon the southern cornish one but there all comparisons end clovelly may afa still an eurnest earnest fishing village but bat her looks belle it the most exquisite vil village lageIn in mi england gland some exquisite one called tier her and she deB debernes deser erves Tea the title i from the coach road where at the top of the clina you enter upon Clo vellys one street to the sea or 1 if you come coma by boat from the baillod to nobby drive and the public road everything Is daf dainty laffity fity elegant of its ita kind groomed nied to impossible perfection no whitewash gleams whiter or bluer biner or wore more delicately yellow th than here at clovella Clovell Clovel lp yi tao oo roses fuchs fuchsias fuch sias ln clematis clema tim I 1 nor lilies illies bloom iti in more profusion no trees are richer ind and greener no vines more luxuriantly graceful than there never a bit of paper litters that one stony street wore more staircase than roadway no speck of dust mars shining windows or spotless curtains no noise of railroads lf ol tr trolly lly cars of traffic le breaks the soft st stillness Uness of this village of delight light down the street goes a long procession of tourists arriving by conch from blueford Bl Al deford or Hoa castle stopping at every house bouse to ohl oh 1 and ah I 1 and perhaps to buy souvenirs or to eat strawberries nod and cream Tin tintagel tagel of Arthurl Arthu rican can legend at Tin tintagel tagel moret more than bad nt at any place perhaps what we bring measures what we take inife awak come full of the arthurian legend come with tennyson with hawker Hawk fer with mallory allory St and lu in spite of modern criticism you yon will savor nought but romance dire are the ruins of Tin tintagel tagel about you across the chasm the yet more formless remains of Terra bli the twin fortresses known to the c arliese tarl lest cornish earls roman saxon norman has built here but it Is not for or archeology archaeology arche that one cornea comes here it Is for romance Tint Is ig not a port occasionally a boat comes in under r the cliff with supplies for the village but houses are arc few and there Is little fishing port isaac further farther down the coast Is a typical cornish port A steep carriage road descend 3 to port isaac and the little stone houses of the vil vl lage cling to the sides of the ravine as best they ian can M AB a harbor we should not approve of f it yet it has served a fishing fleet for yeara yam pleasant enough it Is of a summer day but in spring or autumn storm when the waves come hurling in fin with appalling weight and force to suck 0 out ut again as if they would drag the village into the depths when the fleet jockeys for hours in the trough of a 0 vicious sea unable to mate make the opening between the ae black cliffs yet in constant ps bwll ril of the surf one can but wonder why men made a homed home there st tres sits by a smooth circle of wi sea ilnyo a bongi e of rocky land thrust 9 a bold ct curving irving head land IndOE inclosing 1119 an inner irbon li in ila the preat great sweep of the bay here alere by the sea dwells the rear st fit ives aloie pressed low crouched hullt to withstand the worst fetor ins of bf tea sea and time at K L tv idt s we touch nio dern noton con once more and can take a train very reluctantly iro co dokht back bach to london |