Excursions in the County of Cornwall - Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale

Excerpt from Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of Curiosity; Forming a Co
Again she plunges hark a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock. Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes In wild despair, while yet another stroke With deep convulsions rends the solid oak: 'till like the mine, in whose infernal cell The lurking daemons of destruction dwell, At length asunder torn, her frame divides, And crashing spreads in ruin o'er the tides.
Quitting Padstow, the lover of the picturesque will be much delighted with the village of little pether' wick, where a bridge across the road, an old mill, the church, a few rustic cottages, and some luxuriant foli age, form a picture highly interesting.
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