CHAPTER V 



BOLERIUM: THE END OF ALL 

 THE LAND 



Cliff scenery and headlands The Land's End sentiment Pilgrims 

 and how they are affected Wilkie Collins The child's vision 

 Books on Cornwall d Trip to the Far West Sir Humphry 

 Davy Wesley Winter nights at the Land's End Lighthouses 

 Associations and speculations The scene of great tragedies in 

 the past. 



EVERY day, even in winter, if the weather be 

 not too bad, but chiefly during the nine months 

 from March to November, pilgrims come to 

 this wind-swept, wave-beaten point to gaze and set 

 their feet upon the little rocky promontory of the 

 Land's End. It is less bold and impressive than 

 many others of the hundred headlands at this western 

 extremity of England between St. Ives and Mount's 

 Bay. From this or that projecting point, command- 

 So 



