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 NEWLYN EAST— ST. NIGHTON'S them with huge draughts of invigorating Atlantic air. Though most of the houses are really new, the name is not. Carew, three centuries since, speaks of " newe Kaye, a place in the north coast of Pydar Hundred, so called because in former times the neighbours attempted to supplie the defect of nature by art, rn making there a kay for the rode of shipping ". Some say this " newe kaye " was built when that of far more ancient Crantock was destroyed by invading sands. Almost the only antiquity in Newquay is the Huer's House on the Headland, recalling the fact that the place was once an active fishing village. But the pilchards do not visit it any longer — holi- day-folk have come instead — and the task of the huer, of watching from this eminence to sight the arrival of the shoals, is a thing of the past. Some of the finest hotels of Cornwall are here ; but the town has been so foolishly built that no view of the sea can be obtained from its winding streets, and there is practically no sea-front. The houses that are built along the cliffs usurp the whole view ; but the grand beach and head- lands are a compensation. Newquay is in the parish of St. Columb Minor, but it has its own modern church. Some china-clay is shipped at the small harbour, brought by the local mineral railway. (See St. Columb, Bedruthan, Mawgan, etc.) St. Nighton's or St. Nectans Kieve {zl m. E. of Tintagel) is a secluded waterfall, not particularl}- easy to reach. The chief cascade 199