Coverack Cove And Village Cornwall Antique Print Victorian Picture 1895 RTC#264

Description: Coverack Cove And Village Cornwall 1895 Antique Print A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1895 called Round The Coast, with another picture on the reverse side. Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm. Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.5cm x 17.5cm. This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) COVERACK.—'l'his wholly delightful little spot 'may be reached by steamer from Falmouth. Coverack Cove is six miles from Lizard Town, and is, in the estimation àf' the geologist, a singularly interesting place, since the great mass of serpentine is here succeeded by a beautiful rock, which continues along the shore as far as the Manacles, 'and predominates in the interior through the greater part of the parish of St. Keverne. This far-away and beautiful little cove was the scene of the shipwreck of the Despatch in January, 1809, when Major-General Cavendish, with sixty officers' and men, returning from Corunna, lost their lives. These untbrtunate men have a monument in the neighbouring Church of St. Keverne, about a mile to the north-east. Coverack may also be reached from Pendennis by way of Manaccan and Mawgan-in-Meneage. The Naze Point is next passed'; and a curious cave may here be examined. The cliffs from this spot to the Lizard, though not of lofty elevation, are geologically remarkable. They are chiefly formed of serpentine, glittering with a thousand rich hues and shifting colours. There are at Coverack a small pier and a lovely rippling stream; and above the quiet little cliff-defended village rises Crousa Down, whose summit is crowned by a huge fragment of diallage, quaintly named the "Brothers of Grugith." The cliffs of serpentine now assume a greenish hue, and are pierced with fantastic • caverns and basaltic grottos, riven with jagged fissures and appalling chasms. Very 'lonely, and somewhat desolate is this long line of coast against whose formidable 'ramparts roll the long, fierce billows of the Atlantic It were easy to imagine oneself .a thousand miles from London, snugly established in this little Cornish hamlet.

Price: 7.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2025-01-02T19:24:24.000Z

Shipping Cost: 17.13 GBP