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Truro -- The cathedral -- Probus tower -- S. Kea -- Polgerran -- King / Geraint -- His tomb -- S. Just -- Mylor -- Falmouth a modern / town -- How it sprang up -- The Killigrews -- Arewenack -- A / station for the packets -- Church -- Pendennis Castle -- The / Manacles -- The Black Rock -- Mr. Trefusis of Trefusis -- S. / Mawes Castle -- Roseland -- Smuggling -- S. Mawes a borough -- S. / Tudy -- The climate of Falmouth -- A sunbeam.
The cathedral city of Cornwall is planted at the head of a long creek that unites with the Tresillian river, and together they join the Fal. The name is thought to signify Three Roads, that united at this point. The town lies in a hollow, and the descent into it from the railway station is considerable. It has been a place of more consequence in the past than Bodmin, and several of the Cornish county families had their town residences in Truro, going there for the winter, to enjoy assembly balls and card parties.