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 264 THE CORNWALL COAST Beyond St. Agnes Beacon the coast is largely composed of clay-slates, or killas, presenting much desolate grandeur ; the slate showing the jagged scars of its unending resistance to oceanic forces. At Cligga Head this slate is blended with decom- posed hard granite. Off the shore, about two miles out, rise the two isolated rocks known as the Man and his Men — sometimes also called the Cow and her Calf. " Man " and " Men " are simply corruptions of the Celtic maen, a stone. Between St. Agnes and Perranporth the passage along the cliffs is interrupted by the extensive enclosures of a modern dynamite factory, and the pedestrian who has known this walk of yore is not likely to bless this manufacture of a deadly explosive. But there is a great industrial demand for dynamite in the district, and it is well that its production should be relegated to a neighbour- hood where accidents would do the least possible damage. At Perranporth we approach a grim sand-driven tract of country sacred to the name of one of Cornwall's most typical saints, the Irishman St. Piran. Perranporth itself, since the advent of the railway, is drawing some visitors away from Newquay, in quest of equal beauty and greater quiet. The village stands on the cliffs above a small cove, from which there is some fishing, and northward runs a fine stretch of sand. There are capabilities here for almost unlimited growth, and the district, inland and seaward, is full of charm. The coast is hollowed and arched into wonderful caverns, where the deep blue and green waters break with gentle swell or dash with infuriated violence. The church is a chapel -of -ease to Perranzabuloe {Piran-in-sabulo) ; there are barrows and sand-