Cornwall, famous for its tin mines.
“… from the bleak Cornubian shore
Dispense the mineral treasure, which of old
Sidonian pilots sought.”
Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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