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CORNWALL the pinnacled south porch, and there is another cross in the roadway. Cadf^with (about 2 m. N.E. of the Lizard) is a pretty village. Along the coast are fine caverns, notably Dolor Hugo and Raven's Hugo, " hugo " being apparently a corruption of fogou ; but the chief attraction is the rock- basin known as the Devil's Frying-pan, into which the sea enters through a natural arch at high tide. The natural explanation of such basins is that the waves have washed away all softer deposits, leaving only the framework of rock that was able to resist it. Caer Bran Round (4 m. W. of Penzance) exhibits the remains of a circular hill-castle, one of a chain of such castles defending the Land's End district, and so placed that signals might be flashed from one to the other. They must have been defensive against a landward foe ; seaward, with such a coast, there was little to fear. Caerhays or Carhays House (3 m. S. of Tregony) is a modern building erected on the site of the old home of the Trevanions. Weapons belonging to members of that famous family are treasured at the Parish Church of St. Michael Caerhayes, in which church is a Saxon doorway. John Trevanion, one of ' ' The four wheels of Charles's Wain, Granville, Godolphin, Trevanion, Slanning, slain," fell at the siege of Bristol. Cairn Uny. (See Fogous.) 76