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FURTHEST WEST AND FURTHEST SOUTH 59 with certain precautions. Directly inland is the little village of Sennen, which for many years boasted " The First and Last " house in England ; and down on the shore Sennen Cove, where the families of the lighthouse men live, and the Atlantic cable comes ashore. Whitesand Bay has historical memories ; Athel- stan sailed from here to conquer the Scilly Isles after his sanguinary victory at St. Buryan. It was a bold undertaking considering the means at his disposal. The shore of Whitesand, which is low- lying on an otherwise iron-bound coast, has naturally been the landing-place for those who arrived at this extremity of England. Stephen dis- embarked here when he first came to the country from France and so did Perkin Warbeck. In the centre of the bay the granite and slate meet and mingle. No other place can vie with the Cornish coast for curious and suggestive names. We have here Vell-an-Dreath meaning " The Mill on the Sand." All traces of the mill have disappeared, but the tradition of it lingers. It was kept by a father and son, it is said, who found themselves attacked by a roving gang of Spaniards who had landed to harry the country. The native Cornishmen made