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 LAND'S END— LANHYDROCK point is a natural arch or tunnel, in which two seas meet and clash. Various fantastic names have been given to rocks on the headland and lying off the coast. Landulph (about 4 m. N. of Saltash, by land ; nearer by water) has a good fifteenth century church, with striking windows, three- staged tower, carved benches, and in the church- yard a granite sundial dated 1690. But the most curious thing at Landulph is the tomb of Theodore Palaeologus, date 1636, a descendant of the Christian emperors of Greece. He was in the direct line from that Thomas Palasologus whom the Mohammedan conquerors found in Constantinople. Theodore doubtless wandered about Europe trying to rouse Christendom to a sense of its duty ; but priests and kings were too busy quarrelling with each other to trouble about the fate of Constantinople ; and bitter has been the penalty paid for this early neglect of the Eastern Question. Theodore ultimately found a home and a wife in England, and at last a grave by the Tamar. It is strange to find East and West thus meeting in a Cornish parish church. Laneast (7 m. W. of Launceston) has a church partly E.E., dedicated to SS. Gulval and Sithwella. There is a holy well here. Lanherne. (See Mawgan.) Lanhydrock (about 2 m. S. of Bodmin) embodies the name of a St. Ydroc. The parish contains Lanhydrock House, the old estate of the Robartes family, into whose hands it came 149