Crossword-Solution: PENLEE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Then--noting centers of industry where freezing works rise and smelting of ore occupies many men (for Newlyn labors at the two extremes of fire and ice)--we are back in the fishing village again and upon the winding road which leads therefrom, first to Penlee Point and the blue-stone quarry, anon to the little hamlet of Mousehole beyond.

From thence trending Penlee poynt, you discouer Kings sand and Causam Bay, an open roade, yet sometimes affoording succour to the woorst sort of Seafarers, as not subiect to comptrolment of Plymouth forts.

PLYMOUTH HARBOUR Oh, what know they of harbours Who toss not on the sea! They tell of fairer havens, But none so fair there be As Plymouth town outstretching Her quiet arms to me; Her breast's broad welcome spreading From Mewstone to Penlee.

The first of these was a sheltered bay with twin villages at its head, which I fancifully designated Kingsand and Cawsand--the promontory forming one arm of the bay, looking not unlike Penlee point--greatly adding to the conceit.

This bay, which stretches from Looe to Penlee, was once a valley filled with trees, but, as Florence of Worcester says, "The sea comes out upon the shore and buries towns and men very many, oxen and sheep innumerable." THE ARMADA It is a quiet strip of coast, yet it was here between Rame Head and the Dodman, that on a breezy Sunday morning the Spaniards of the Armada first caught sight of the English fleet under Lord Howard of Effingham, and the volunteer flotilla that was led by Francis Drake.