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ST. AUSTELL TO ST. MAWES 77 contrast, it is interesting to remember that the Brighton Pavilion was also Nash's work ; and thus the mind can wander from this peaceful Cornish cove to that most populous of British watering-places. At PorthoUand is a small hamlet wedged into a tiny cleft, where those who desire the uttermost quietude might be satisfied ; west- ward along the coast is the slightly larger fishing village of Portloe. This is in the parish of Veryan, one of the " Roseland " parishes whose name has really nothing to do with roses. Roseland, formerly Rosinis (Roz-innis, "moorland" or "heath island "), was in its origin a very early designation of this strip of land lying between Veryan Bay and the Fal ; and we find the same original in the Rosen Cliff, just above Nare Head. Nare Head, a fine bluff of rock, is the southward point of Veryan parish and the western extremity of Veryan Bay. There is some memory of Tregeagle around this headland, but his tale belongs more fully to Dozmare Pool on the Bodmin Moors and to the Land's End district. More immediately concerning us is the story of Geraint — at least of one of the rather numerous Cornish princes bearing that name — which is associated with Gorrans Bay and Dingerrein, now opening upon us, and with the great barrow of Carne Beacon. Perhaps Geraint, Latinised as Gerennius and sometimes as Gerontios, was simply a title of chieftainship or kingship ; it is certain that the name was applied to more than one British chieftain, though since Tennyson's Idylls there has been only one Geraint in the mind of the general reader. Gerrans Bay, of course, embodies the name, and so do the remains of the entrench- ment or camp at Dingerrein. It is possible that