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 16 CORNWALL the Cornish contingent, it is said, can turn the scale in an election at the Royal Academy." The truth is, Cornwall must be taken in bits, and often the most hideous lie close up alongside the most attractive; however they only help to intensify that which is very good. People who look too cursorily are the most often disap- pointed. Wandering about Cornwall certainly induces one ache, and that is the ache to be more knowledge- able. Those lucky creatures who know something of botany and geology here have delights not un- folded to others. Cornwall is a paradise for the botanist and geologist, because for the former there are rare species and some altogether unknown else- where, such as the Erica vagans so often mentioned, which grows in the neighbourhood of the Lizard. In fact Cornwall possesses more specialities in plant - life than any other county in England. For the latter because even the amateur can see the wonder and difference of the rocks : the pink tinged granite of Land's End, the great granite tors inland on the moors, and the variegated serpentine at the Lizard, as well as the cruel, sharp-edged slate of the northern coast While as for the archaeologist is there any part of Britain that affords him such