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that lays the golden eggs ", or by some such abomin- 

 able phrase, which is yet well understood by all since 

 it appeals to the baser nature in every man to his 

 greed and his cunning ; still, it might be well to 

 remind even those who are wholly concerned with 

 material things that the sentiment they make light of 

 probably exists in some degree in a majority of the 

 inhabitants of this country which, be it remembered, 

 is mainly Anglo-Saxon, a sentimental race, to use the 

 word in its better sense and that it is the desire 

 of most persons to see the Land's End ; also that 

 probably nine of every ten visitors to Cornwall think 

 of that headland as their objective point. 



To save this spot it would undoubtedly have to be 

 taken from private ownership ; and, given the desire, 

 there would be small difficulty in obtaining an Act of 

 Parliament for the compulsory sale of a strip of the 

 sea-front with, let us say, a couple of thousand acres 

 of the adjoining moor. The buildings which now 

 deform the place, the unneeded hotels, with stables, 

 shanties, zinc bungalows sprawling over the cliff, and 

 the ugly big and little houses could be cleared away, 

 leaving only the ancient village of St. Sennen, the 

 old farm-houses, the coastguard and Trinity House 

 stations, and the old fishing hamlet under the cliff. 



If a Cornish Society, formed for the purpose, and 

 working with the County Council, could not do this 

 without outside help, the money needed could no 

 doubt be easily raised by public subscription. We 

 know that very large sums are frequently given by 

 the public for similar purposes, also for various other 



