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 COUNTY AND SHIRE 3 Latin form of Cornwall is Cornubia. The ancient British settlers in the present department of Finistere called that portion of Gaul Cornouaille. 2. General Characteristics. On many accounts Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we Luxulyan Village regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its anti- quities. It has lain so much out of the main current of the life of England that it was hardly mixed up with the politics of the nation till the time of the Civil War. Its situation, projecting as it does into the sea, by which it is washed on all sides but one, has naturally 12