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=Romantic portrayals of the Cornish=

Cornwall and Cornish people have been portrayed in a wide variety of ways. Early travellers to report on Cornwall and her people include John Leland in 1536 and 1542, and Celia Fiennes, in 1698. In confirmation of this the 1893 Ethnographic Survey of the British Isles studied the inhabitants and folklore of Cornwall in thirty-five various locations throughout the area believing that Cornwall’s isolation would provide them with an example of a “remarkably uncorrupted race of ‘primitive’ people”

In 1877 Bishop Benson noted that the Cornish were "a most peculiar people". This sense of difference to England, across the Tamar, has led some anthropologists to see this as the a concept of diversity largely created by outsiders. Furthermore this difference was used L to encourage Victorian visitors who were in search of some perceived romantic and spiritual land lost in time. Both the folklore and ethnographic studies were concerned with a population considered at the time to be inferior to the racially superior Germanic Englishman. ---Interenet ref Boissevain 1996 maintains that popularly-held stereotypes lead to a "guide book culture… of pirates, piskies and sweeping landscapes filled with exotic Celts"