84 COUNTRY ESSAYS. 



They are written in the books of Borlase and Mallory. It has 

 been a loving labour to dwell for a short time on the quiet 

 home-scenes of the Land's End, which, if less stupendous- 

 than Alpine peaks, not so far-spread as Norwegian feld and 

 fiord, have yet their own refreshment for the seeker of beauty. 

 We would fain photograph for the pleasure of others, as well 

 as of ourselves, these floating reminiscences of the Land's End, 

 ere they pass away as the ghost-like ships that, on a sunny day r 

 are wafted on without perceptible motion, from peak to peak 

 of this rocky coast. They are but faint outlines at the best, 

 echoes of the glorious harmonies of nature which a careful 

 observer may always find here, confused somewhat as 



"In some flooded cave 

 Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave ; " 



and dimmed with the mists of absence, and also may be some- 

 what heightened by treacherous memory ; but, such as they 

 are, put on record to interest those precluded from visiting these 

 remarkable shores, but who yet love the beauties of their native 

 land. 



