English Pictures Drawn with Pen and PencilManning, Samuel
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English Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil
Manning, Samuel
England -- Description and travel
The mechanical restoration of this Logan Rock to its position, and the
appliances necessary to keep it in balance, give an artifical air to the
whole, and we were glad to turn away to the stupendous cliff scenery,
pursuing a path along the rocks to the Land's End, where every point has
its old Cornish name, and where the combinations of form and outline,
if less imposing than on the northern shore, are still very fine. The
granite of which this southern line of coast is composed is more rugged
and massive, if less variously picturesque, and the admirer of coast
scenery who has explored the two districts--from Boscastle to Tintagel,
and from the Logan Rock to the Land's End--has little' more to see or to
learn.
The great western promontory has been so often described that we
need but refer to our artist's delineation. The low descending
promontory, from the great cliff rampart behind, the narrowness of the
"neck of land" between "two unbounded seas,"--to adopt the phrase of
Charles Wesley's well-known hymn, here written,--the rocky islands near,
on which the lighthouse stands, and the ever-chafing restless surge,
make up a picture which fills the imagination in many after days.
[Illustration: 8155]
From this point "the vast expanse of ocean is at all times a grand
spectacle; it is terrible when a fierce westerly gale levels before it
the whole flow of the sea, driving forward one blinding sheet of foam,
even to the summit of the Land's End precipice; but it is yet more
solemn in its quieter mood, when, with little wind stirring, the vast
billows, propagated from some centre of storms far in the Atlantic, come
slowly to break on the rocks in measured cadences of thunder, the very
types of enormous power in repose."
But it was now time to turn our thoughts and our course homeward.
Very reluctantly, we left the south of Cornwall unvisited--the Lizard
Point, Kynance Cove, and the magnificent harbour of Falmouth, with its
flanking castles of Pen-dennis and St. Mawes.
[Illustration: 9155]
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