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 52 CORNWALL lichen, is frequented by "guides" who point out fancy resemblances to faces in the weather carven rocks. The reef is small ; there is not much that is grand about it ; but if one sits there while the sun sinks, a glowing ball, into the sea exactly oppo- site, and the ruby and diamond points of the light- houses flash out far and wide, and perhaps a clear pale sickle moon begins to sharpen in outline in the fading sky, there is plenty on which to exercise the imagination. The granite, being split by the action of the weather into long columns, and divided again horizontally into blocks, gives the impression of a series of obelisks built up of sepa- rate stones. The general effect is rather like the famous cavern at Staffa. In places however the rocks are split into such massive and even-edged blocks that it is very difficult to disentangle the natural from the artificial, and one often imagines oneself to be gazing at the ruins of a castle which is really only some cloven cliff hammered by natural elements and not by tools of man's making. On the seaward side the hotel lounge has been carried out in a great bay, and from the sweep of windows there are no less than four lighthouses to be seen, with their varying flashes. The bright