Mount's Bay

…From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which stood high upon a grassy headland, we looked down upon the whole sinister semicircle of Mount's Bay, that old death-trap of sailing vessels, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs, on which innumerable seamen have met their end.…

…From its windows we looked down upon the whole sinister semicircle of Mount's Bay, that old deathtrap, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs.…