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 FURTHEST WEST AND FURTHEST SOUTH 61 round here they would soon recover. The coast- line is serrated by innumerable small bays like deep bites and in each one some wild and strange rock- forms imitating natural objects can be seen. We pass at first by Carn Greab, Cock's Comb Rock, where a conspicuous group includes the Armed Knight, and then we come to a tiny island called Enys Dodman, which has a great archway scored through it by the action of the waves. Pardenick Point rises perpendicularly about two hundred feet from the sea ; the curious " pillar " appearance of the rocks is very striking, and not less so the reddish veins which run like streams sheer down the granite in places. Anyone lingering here, as the sun sets and the shadows grow long, can make out all sorts of weird shapes and haunting faces in the cliffs, as odd as any mediaeval artist's conceptions embodied in gargoyles. We pass Mozrang Pool, the Maid's Pool, and then the Red Rock, and the Chilly Carn ; next a chasm called by the poetical name of " The Song of the Sea," and so to the " Cove under the Vale." All along the coast, those who have time to explore it will find strange sea- caverns, logan-stones, natural arches and other fantastic forms. Then we reach Tol Pedn, where is quite the