Cornwall

CORNWALL is the most south-westerly portion of England, and forms a peninsula, being bounded by the sea on three sides, and along four-fifths of its Eastern border it is separated from the county of Devon by the river Tamar, except just north of Launceston, where a small portion of Devonshire juts into Cornwall. The length of the county, from Devonshire to the Land's End, is 80 miles, and its greatest breadth, which is at its junction with Devonshire-viz. from Rame Head in the south to Marshland Mouth in the north-is about 45 miles, Other parts of the county are about 24 miles wide, but between St. Ives and Mount's Bay it is only 7 miles.
The SCILLY ISLANDS, situated about 30 miles from the Land's End, are a part of Cornwall, and are reached by steamer from Penzance.