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 4 CORNWALL caused the natives to take to the water, and has made Cornwall to be the mother of a hardy breed of fishermen and sailors. But the county being also rich in mineral wealth has from an early age caused a large portion of the manhood of the land to seek their livelihood in mines ; and the peculiar conditions of Cornwall have thus deter- Dozmare Pool mined the professions of a large proportion of its males to be either on the water or under ground. The interior of the county cannot be regarded as beautiful, consisting of a backbone of elevated land, wind- swept, and over a large area covered with mine-ramps and the skeletons of abandoned machine-houses standing up gaunt amidst the desolation. But the valleys are always beautiful, and the Bodmin moors, if not so lofty and broken