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A plaster used as a remedy for IMG:content-0374.jpg:[blocks in formation] Corn'-salad, n. ( Bot .) See FEDIA. Corn'wall, the south-western peninsula of England, a maritime county, surrounded by the sea, except on the E. side, where it is separated from Devons hire by the Tamar, and by an artificial boundary of a few miles in length at its northern extremity. Ext . 78 miles long, with an average breadth of 43. Area , 1,330 sq. miles. Desc. A ridge of bleak and rugged hills extending from W. to E. through its whole length, renders its appearance dreary in the extreme. The eye is, however, осcas i on ally relieved by valleys of great fertility and beauty, watered by numberle small streams, which are frequently interesting, from the romantic scenery with which they are a ociated. Along the coasts, too, the huge ma es of granite, bidding defiance on one side to the violence of the waves, and forming, on the other, a stupendous rampart to the fertile plains beneath, exhibit a rare union of the sublime and beautiful. Kivers. The Tamar, Lynher, Fowey, Fal, Hal or Hayle, the Love, and the Alan or Camel. Climate . Uncertain, and subject to heavy rains, but, on the whole, mild. Prod. Comparatively little attention was paid to agriculture till lately, when it began to be improved. The principal crops are corn and potatoes. Minerals . Silver, zinc, lead, copper, tin, antimony, manganese, cobalt, bismuth, and granite. The total amount of tin produced in Cornwall amounts to about 5,000 tons annually. Copper is mined to the extent of about 12,000 tons a year. The tin and copper mines employ about 60,000 persons. One of the most interesting of the Cornish minerals is the soap rock, particularly used in the manufacture of porcelain. There is also the china-stone, which is raised in great quantities near St. A us tell, and forms a principal ingredient in the manufactures of the Staff ords hire potteries. A great variety of fish frequent the coasts of this county. Its pilchard and mackerel fisheries are especially valuable, and absorb a large amount of capital. Manf . Tin smelting. Cap . Truro. This county was not subdued till the time of Athelstan, when the Saxons a erted their superiority over it. The Cornish, which is a dialect of the Celtic, has only become extinct within the present century. The Scilly Islands lie about 36 miles W. by S. of the Land's End, and are supposed to have been formerly connected with Cornwall. The intermediate and surrounding rocks are innumerable, and Druidical antiquities abound. Pop . in 1891, 322,571. Corn'wall, in Connecticut, a town and township of Litchfield co. Pop. (1897) abt. 1,350. Cornwall, in Illinois, a township of Henry co. Corn'-stone, n. A provincial Anglicism for the red Cornwall, in New York , a post-village and township limestone. Corn'ton, in Vermont , a post-office of Windham co. [Lat., "Ammon's horn."]