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CRANTOCK, NEWQUAY, MAWGAN 287 delay to go round by the bridge, and the occasion was pressing. Merging all his virtue into one brave deed, the man plunged into the boiling torrent, and never reached the other side. In con- sideration of this last action the doom, that would otherwise have been his was mitigated into a nobler penance. He is permitted to haunt the shores, and by his cries to warn passengers when the ford has become perilous. So does he save others and work out his own salvation. Immediately beyond the Warren, with its old- world tumuli, is Fistral Bay, the eastern point of which is Towan Head, giving Newquay its finest promenade. Here, just beyond the golf-links, are two of the largest hotels, and beyond these is the lifeboat-house, with its slip for launching. Beneath are caverns and natural tunnels once devoted to smuggling ; while a memorial of old Newquay's other industry exists in the quaint Huer's House, on the eastern point of the head- land. It was from this look-out that the hue-and- cry was raised when the shoals of pilchards were sighted ; a man being on watch here, to give signal to the fishing-boats. But the pilchards do not come so far eastward now ; the house remains to remind Newquay, now in the day of its pride and fashion, that it was a humble lowly fishing village. Carew, three centuries since, spoke of " newe Kaye, a place in the north coast of Pydar Hundred, so called because in former times the neighbours attempted to supplie the defect of nature by art, in making there a kay for the rode of shipping." There is usually some amount of charm about a harbour ; but neither the harbour nor even the sea is visible from the streets of Newquay, except in rare glimpses. Modern Newquay seems to have