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rejoin their carriages by striking inland to Sowar. There are, 

 however, several features of interest on the cliffs. We may 

 briefly mention Bosistow Logan rock, Nanjizel Bay with the 

 curious archway of Zawn Pyg, and Cairn Evall. All pe- 

 destrians should make a point of seeing them. 



We will now leave the inn lately built at the Land's End on 

 our left (as it does not stand on that promontory, but on a near 

 neighbour), and scramble over a rough granite-strewn footpath 

 to a commanding rock at the extremity of the land. It is im- 

 possible to reach the verge, owing to the granite dipping every 

 here and there to the sea-level, and projecting in other places 

 in rather a disappointing manner, but only after the fashion of 

 other celebrated points, of which Flamborough Head is a 

 signal instance. Its chalk, however, falls like a tame hill-side ; 

 here stern peaks of granite, edged with green prismatic blocks, 

 black and hungry-looking, and dripping with foam till they re- 

 semble the jaws of a maddened wild boar, eternally champ the 

 surf, and seem to grin with a cruel impotence of wrath on the 

 passing ships. Woe betide the venturous man who should at- 

 tempt to bathe near these rocks. In the calmest weather you 

 can see the currents swirling round each jutting mass, and 

 sweeping off into still deeper water clots of churned foam, 

 diverging rings of surf; anon comes a vast pulsation of the 

 mighty sea-bosom j and, without a moment's warning, a sheet of 

 green water is projected over the low-lying reefs, and streams 

 off in silver showers adown every cranny, till once more the 

 surrounding surface is treacherously calm. There is something 

 irresistibly seductive in the sight, leading the eye to linger on 

 the graceful curves and bright colours of the water, and with 

 something of the giddy attractiveness of a precipice, tempting 

 the swimmer to let himself down to its cool, gently-heaving ex- 

 panse. There is nothing in the shape of beach or cove in the 

 neighbourhood, no foil to mar the grandeur of the prospect. 

 He must be insensible, indeed, who does not sit silent a space, 



