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 POPULAR IDEAS OF CORNWALL 13 living-room on to a road slanting at an angle of forty-five degrees or more, which forms their only playground, naturally their leg muscles get strength- ened, and as they grow up and have to start off to school, or return from it, up a hill that taxes the sinews of a " foreigner " till he groans, they make nothing of it. Roads seem to wander at their own sweet will with no inclination to the Roman ideal, but they never wander to avoid inclines ; they tilt up and down again with the most gracious equa- nimity, and a man on a cycle who has struggled up a steep ascent and feels at last he will be able to reap the reward, as often as not finds the descent too perilous to ride without the utmost caution. Cornwall is not a county for cyclists except they be strong in the leg ; but it is good country for those pedestrians who measure the day's journey by what they have seen and not by ground got over as the crow flies, for they can follow the enchanting little paths winding in and out by the great headlands of the coast. Cornwall is no place for being in a hurry. Many of the most famous sights, such as the great outlying cliffs at Gurnard's Head, and the Logan Rock, are not anywhere near a road. The roads keep inland, and for very good reason. These