. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. St. MichatTs Mount. The Causeway. CHAPTER XVII I had walked out to Newlyn in the early morning hoping tosee a fish auction, and found nothing save a countless host ofgulls screaming and fighting up and down the mud of the largeempty harbour. All Mounts Bay lay in haze. Westwardshalf a score of fishing boats were standing out to sea. On theeast the fine cone of St. Michaels Mount lay dark and solemn,looking infinitely distant in the soft mist; while behind seen, ran a low shadow which might have been cloud ifone had not known it to be land.
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. St. MichatTs Mount. The Causeway. CHAPTER XVII I had walked out to Newlyn in the early morning hoping tosee a fish auction, and found nothing save a countless host ofgulls screaming and fighting up and down the mud of the largeempty harbour. All Mounts Bay lay in haze. Westwardshalf a score of fishing boats were standing out to sea. On theeast the fine cone of St. Michaels Mount lay dark and solemn,looking infinitely distant in the soft mist; while behind seen, ran a low shadow which might have been cloud ifone had not known it to be land. Suddenly the light began tofall and spread around the Mount. A long gleaming line Hashedout across the sea. The jagged promontory of Cudden beganto show his scars and clefts, and a widening patch of silverylight dropped down in front, changing and growing brighterevery moment, till at last the haze had risen altogether from the U 2 292 MOUNTS BAY CH. xvn sea, and clung only about the pinnacles of the Mount, where ithung remote and solemn,
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