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A glance at the surrounding features will satisfy the visitor that 

 it is a natural curiosity, the usual effect of weather on granite. 

 He may see the process of its formation in every cliff of this 

 coast. 



An artist's eye dwells with peculiar fondness on the rich 

 colouring of the sea near the Logan. On its eastern side the 

 waves are a rich blue fringed with white foam, where they chafe 

 on the stern rock-wall that fronts them. Dark masses of sunken 

 granite, shading into the characteristic light grey hue of this 

 rock as they near the surface, diversify the blue expanse here 

 and there as storm-clouds fleck an azure sky on a gleamy day. 

 On the other side of the rocky headland the contrast is wonder- 

 ful, like the sudden changes of April weather. A small crescent 

 of white sand, backed by grand granite cliffs, encloses the 

 greenest sea to be found anywhere in Britain. It is positively 

 a fairy sea, lovely as ever poet's imagination shadowed forth. 

 The beach is formed entirely of minute shells (150 varieties, it 

 is said, may be picked up), and their lustre, with the reflection 

 and gloom of the surrounding cliffs, it is which produces 

 this translucent sea. Every now and then as the sluggish 

 Atlantic heaves or sinks here like the breathing of some vast 

 monster, glimpses are disclosed of peaks and rock summits 

 with unfathomable-looking wells of beauty by their side, till 

 fancy prompts a plunge into their depth, whispering of marvels 

 hidden there more entrancing than Mr. Matthew Arnold's 

 merman's cave more awful than those encountered by 

 .Schiller's diver. 



Visitors will turn their backs reluctantly on this cove, glowing 

 with enchanted colour, yet the walk over the cliffs to St. Levan 

 is in its way equally charming. Carriages should be left be- 

 hind at Logan village, and ordered to drive inland to Sowar, a 

 melancholy-looking farm-house and buildings, while you walk 

 around the coast to them. In this way the finest cliff scenery 

 of Cornwall will be seen. It lies between the Logan and 



