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 60 CORNWALL a stout resistance, and finally escaped the back way under protection of a cloud of smoke, carrying stout sacks of flour on their backs to protect them from bullets. The Spaniards destroyed the mill, which was never rebuilt. Close to the southern end of the bay is a detached rock called The Irish Lady, which with some imagination may be likened to a mincing dame flouncing out to sea. Such rocks are not at all uncommon in Cornwall, one, very well known, is Queen Bess at Bedruthan Steps. Towering above the lady on the mainland is Pedn Men Dhu, Black Rock Headland, a pile of massive granite. Further along we find Carn Barges, the Kites' Rock ; Carn Towan, the Rock on the Sandhills ; Polpry Cove, the Clay-Pit ; Carn Leskez, the Rock of Light, said to be where the Druids kindled their sacred fires, but much more likely the place where faked beacon fires were lit to lure ships to destruc- tion in the bad old days ! Close off Cape Corn- wall are the Brisons, two fearful shattering piles, and near them Priests' Cove, right under the head- land. The coast to the south of Land's End is even more interesting, and if any of those who say they are "disappointed" with Land's End could walk