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 38 CORNWALL the only case of a submerged forest being found around the shores of Cornwall. Great trunks have been disclosed, and even hazel-nuts and twigs ; but it is a big step from the subsidence of some parts of the shore and the consequent submergence of forest land, to the story of the overwhelm- ing of such a land as Lyonnesse, reaching out as far as Scilly and containing many villages and churches. To return to Penzance. The town is very irregular, its meandering streets meet at all angles, and here and there are linked by narrow, passage- like cross-cuts, ofttimes as steep as wynds. There is a very noticeable prevalence of Nonconformist places of worship, and these show, as most of their kind do, a hideous lack of architectural beauty, a sort of defiance of the pride of the eye. The Cornishmen since Wesley's crusade have been strongly Nonconformist, notwithstanding the fact that Wesley himself was a son of the Church. They probably find the rigidity of the Established Church too formal for their fervent souls. Noncon- formity appeals to them as it does to their cousins the Welsh, and it is a curious thing that St. Mary's, the most ancient of the churches, should be the opposite of this, with ritualistic services, whence the