Roscoff

Roscoff, a seaport on the north coast of the French department of Finistère (long the headquarters of smuggling into England), 33 miles N.E. of Brest. The men are all sailors; the women grow vegetables. The place is resorted to for seabathing, and here is a marine zoological station. The garden of the Capuchin monastery contains a fig-tree whose branches, trained over scaffolding, could give shelter to 200 people. Pop. 1751. Here Mary Queen of Scots landed in 1548, and the Young Pretender after his escape from Scotland.