The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 367
Mount, Cornwall. — The sketch given, with a brief descriptionof St. Michaels Mount, attached to my article upon the evergreen oak[IX. 543.], was only meant to give an idea of the situation of the gardens;whereas, placed as it there is, in connection with the reading, it appears as ifit were… … from the land when the tide is receding, and thereby discovering the line ofthe causeway, or approach to the Mount, when the tide is out. The mass ofrock in the foreground is called the Chapel Rock, on which traditionreports a chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to have once stood; close towhich,…