Name five places upon the Thames and its estuary in this county. Notice the sandbanks in the estuary of the Thames; also, notice how the waters of the rivers spread on the low shores.

2. Name three rivers which flow eastward in Essex. Name a seaport town at the mouth of the Stour; a town upon the Colne; a town upon the Blackwater; two towns upon the Chelmer.

3. Name the eastern counties of England. What is their general character?

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CORNWALL.

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CORNWALL is not like the rest of England; the natives have habits of their own, and some remains of a language of their own. The land itself is not like that of other counties, and the people have unusual ways of earning their living.

Cornwall is at the very end of England, the southwest end; it is a sort of horn, stretching out into a stormy sea, which washes it all round except on the Devon side, and on this side the river Tamar nearly makes an island of it.

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The Saxons called this out of the way corner Cornwall," which means the horn of the strangers or foreigners, because here the Britons held their own for from four to five hundred years against the invaders who had conquered the rest of the country.

The descendants of the Britons still occupy Cornwall, and though they no longer speak the ancient Cornish tongue, they have words and ways yet which show their origin.

This county is in itself a history of England, the most ancient of all histories, to be read, not in printed books, but in rocks and ruins and in strange folk-lore; a history which carries us back to days before those when King David ruled in Israel.

Its rocks are made of granite, an exceedingly fine, hard stone, which takes a high polish, and is beautiful to adorn our churches, and firm and durable enough to