Hotels in Penzance, Cornwall

"Pensands [sic] is rightly named being all sands about it; it lies just as a shore to the maine south ocean which comes from the Lizard, and being on the side of a hill with a high hill all round the side to the landward, it lookes soe snug and warme and truely it needs shelter haveing the sea on the other side and little or no fewell; turf and furse and ferne; they have little or noe wood and noe coale which differences it from Darbyshire, otherwise this and to the Lands End is stone and barren as Darbyshire ..."

Celia Fiennes