Excerpt from Our Little Town: And Other Cornish Tales and Fancies Physically and politically, all Porthjulyan is divided into two parts - the Town proper, and Gov'ment. Taking the letter U for the ground work of our survey, I would ask you to impart a slight outward slant to the two uprights, and to consider them as two steep roads running inland up two narrow valleys. Where the basal curve begins, there begins Porthjulyan on either side, the town to the left, Gov'ment to the right. A low cliff or spur of the hills divides ...
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Excerpt from Our Little Town: And Other Cornish Tales and Fancies Physically and politically, all Porthjulyan is divided into two parts - the Town proper, and Gov'ment. Taking the letter U for the ground work of our survey, I would ask you to impart a slight outward slant to the two uprights, and to consider them as two steep roads running inland up two narrow valleys. Where the basal curve begins, there begins Porthjulyan on either side, the town to the left, Gov'ment to the right. A low cliff or spur of the hills divides the two parts, so that each is invisible to the other; but follow the road as it humps itself over this cliff, and from the midmost point you can obtain a compre hensive view of the whole place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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