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Excerpt from Carādoc, or the Church in the Sands: A Life Picture of England, Ireland, and Cornwall Before the Romans Left Britain From boyhood I have always been impressed with the savage grandeur of Perran Porth and that part of the north coast of Cornwall. Who can forget his first glimpse of Perran Bay on a bright summer morning from the top of Callistock Hill, or the last slope on the main road from Truro? The blue majesty of ocean, the giant breakers lapping with foam the base of the sand hills that slope down to the eastern beach, the bold Gull Rock guarding the entrance to Holywell Bay, all make a picture that must be seen to be realised, and once seen can never be forgotten. The flat sanded beach stretching for miles seems to embody tradition as the cry of the sea gull strikes the traveller's ear. If there had been no Lost Church, one's imagination must still have pictured the relics of a bygone age. But this is not necessary when the place itself teems with evidence of antiquity. Here is Firan's Church. Here is the well of Cuthbert, whose hidden approach mocks the search of the stranger. Here too is Perran Round, all that remains of the old Roman amphitheatre, the only one extant in England, that of Dorchester in Dorset excepted. Here, finally, are the desertsand hills and the Chapel Rock, severed from the mainland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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