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Updated: May 24, 2025
Nan stopped, the west in her eyes. "Look." Point beyond point they saw stretching westward to Land's End, dim and dark beyond a rose-flushed sea. "Isn't it clear," said Nan. "You can see the cliff villages ever so far along ... Newlyn, Mousehole, Clement's Island off it and the point of Lamorna." Barry said "We'll go to Land's End by the coast road to-morrow, shan't we, not the high road?"
On both sides, near Newlyn and at Lamorna, there is some busy quarrying; the quarries at Lamorna supplied much of the granite for the Thames Embankment. Being a favourite trip from Penzance, the cove at Lamorna is pretty well known; it opens to the sea from a very beautiful little valley formed by the Lamorna stream, wooded with hazels and alders.
In this neighbourhood also, up a valley which extends from a pretty little place called Lamorna Cove, is a place where a large amount of the finest granite is quarried. Tacking when off Mousehole, we stood directly for Penzance. Approaching the north shore, we had a fine view of Saint Michael's Mount, rising out of the blue water washing its base, crowned by its far-famed and ancient monastery.
Joan, though, argued that if she was a witch, there was all the more reason for keeping friendly with her. And if one did not offend Betty, she was always ready to give one a cup of tea, or do anything to oblige one. Betty lived down at Lamorna Cove, which was a little way out of Joan's road, but she did not mind that if she could get Betty's company.
There is, however, a remarkable fogou, or subterranean cavern, about 38 feet long and 6 feet in height, with a passage leading into another similar chamber. There are good specimens at Cairn Uny, at Trelowarren, and at Trewoofe near Lamorna.
All these things Wenna thought of in after days, until the odd and plain little harbor of Lamorna, and its rocks and bushes and slopes of granite, seemed to be some bit of Fairyland, steeped in the rich hues of the sunset, and yet ethereal, distant and unrecoverable. Mrs. Rosewarne did not at all understand the silence of these young people, and made many attempts to break it up.
Lamorna Cove lay before them, and a cold fresh breeze came in from the sea. Here the world seemed to cease suddenly.
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