Departing from Penzance, and travelling six and a half miles in a north-west direction, we arrived at St. Just barely in daylight. One inn alone was open to us, and that more of a public-house than an hotel. We got up-stairs into a "private room," but neither privacy nor quiet had we that evening ; for a band of musicians, composed chiefly of miners, were parading the neighbourhood for practice, and for drinking afterwards. In the north of England I heard a band of musical pitmen in a pit village ; there, near the extreme Land's End, I encountered a band of musical miners. It was pleasant to witness their enjoyment; but the sound was not calculated to calm an agitated mind, and the drum had a fearful power. They might almost have heard it at Penzance.