Stanfield's Coast scenery - a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France (1847) (14596583887)

Identifier: stanfieldscoasts00stan (find matches)
Title: Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867
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Publisher: London : Smith, Elder and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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LandsEnd itself, it should be understood, being only a nominal title intendedto express the extreme point of land, and not as the name of a village orhamlet: it is in the parish of Sennan. The spot so called is, accordingto Dr. Berger, three hundred and ninety-one feet above the level ofthe sea. The mine that gives the title to the Engraving in this Work is one ofthe greatest wonders in the county of Cornwall. The entrance to theWorks is two hundred feet below the cliffs, and the operations of theminers extend for nearly seventy fathoms under the bed of the sea.The effect of the scene from below is most wonderful. Combined withthe wild sublimity of the rocks and the ocean, it forms no bad counterpartof Shakspeares famous cliff, and realizes the description of the placewhere crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Troops oi mules may at times be seen descending the heights, laden withcoals for the supply of the engine at work at the mine. The path by
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THE BOTALLACK MINE. 13 which they approach is circuitous, and an unpractised person would assoon think of walking down a precipice, as attempting the descent whichthe riders of the mules do as fearlessly as a horseman rides a turnpikeroad. The stupendous and majestic appearance of the rocks, the ragingof the ocean, and the amazingly numerous flocks of sea-gulls, and otherwild fowl, add not a little to the effect. On approaching the engine that works the mine the cliff is nearlyperpendicular. The ore raised from the mine is drawn up over aninclined plane by means of a horse-engine placed on the extreme verge ofthe rock above, and which seems from below to be suspended in air. Thefollowing is a good description of the nature of the work in mines, andwill undeceive many who have pictured to themselves a scene of bustlevery different from what actually exists. It is from the pen of Dr. Forbes: A person unacquainted with the details of mining, on being informed ofmany hundreds of men being