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 THE "TOE" OF CORNWALL 47 sometimes placed singly, sometimes two or three together, often with an embankment round, or a good cave near for retreat if necessary. The huts are circular and built without cement or mortar. Fragments of pottery have been found in and around. Some of them are near Chun Castle, that ancient earthwork, one of the half-dozen or so in the " toe " of Cornwall. This district was the last stronghold of the British race, who had retreated before the Western invaders to the very extremity of the land. By any one of these roads we should come at last out on to the coast road rather grandilo- quently called " The Atlantic Drive " running from Land's End to St. Ives. This has been compared with the famous Corniche drives of the Riviera. But beware ! Don't expect too much, or you will be terribly disappointed. Yet if you go with an open mind, expecting nothing, you will see something of very real interest and carry away new knowledge. The fields are in many places simply covered with stones. How the corn finds room to grow is a miracle. The constant winds try everything growing very severely, and there is a look of bare poverty about the land. It is often compared with