Botallack

Botallack girl, the daughter of a mine captain, and indeed asked

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

About a mile westward is the old Botallack mine, perhaps the most famous in all Cornwall, which reached to the sea and considerably beyond; it was long closed, and the decayed buildings had quite a romantic appearance on the wild, bare cliffs, but the revival of

The Cornwall Coast

"You were great friends with Archelaus while he was at Botallack last autumn, I've heard," he said teasingly.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

Botallack mine, now long disused; Jim was crying with hunger and alarm and the old man babbling of the days when he had worked there.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

The extraordinary position down the face of the cliff, of the engines and other works on the surface at Botallack, is now explained.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

Also Botallack mine was then in full work and swallowing young men, though for poor enough wage.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

It makes us pause for an instant, to the miner's infinite amusement, in the very act of knocking away about an inch of ore from the rock, as a memento of Botallack.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

Botallack Head, with its old engine houses perched on its rocky crags, has a singularly savage appearance.

The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907

` This won't do, 'I says to myself; and I roused up again, knowing that I couldn't have been asleep long, because my pipe wasn't out; but all the same I dreamed a lot, all about dragging a truck on a tram-line down in Botallack mine, right away under the sea.

To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze George Manville Fenn 1870

Botallack mine is not, I need scarcely say, a wheal Do-em.

Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories 1859