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gun I'd give you corpse ! " It is not strange the 

 raven views the human form divine with suspicion in 

 these parts : he is much persecuted by the religious 

 people hereabouts, and when they cannot climb up or 

 down to his nest on a ledge of the cliff, they are 

 sometimes able to destroy it by setting fire to a furze 

 bush and dropping it upon the nest from above. 



The rocky forelands I haunted were many, but the 

 favourite one was Gurnard's Head, situated about 



THE LOGAN ROCK 



midway between St. Ives and Land's End. It is the 

 grandest and one of the most marked features of that 

 bold coast. Seen from a distance, from one point of 

 view, the promontory suggests the figure of a Sphinx, 

 the entire body lying out from the cliff, the waves 

 washing over its huge black outstretched paws and 

 beating on its breast, its stupendous deformed face 

 composed of piled masses of granite looking out on 

 the Atlantic. I was often there afterwards, spending 

 long hours sitting on the rocks of the great head and 



