Our Cornish language is so far weakened that we can hardly hope to see it strengthen again, for as did the Saxons first send it to this narrow land, thus it is still pressing against it without allowing it any place at all, but around the coast and the sea. All it is spoken now is almost from Land's End to St Michael's Mount, and towards St Ives and Redruth, and again from the Lizard towards Helston and Falmouth:
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