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 CORNWALL never logged so well since. There is another fine logan near Zennor, and others in different parts of Cornwall and Devon. Longsliips Lii{litliouse stands on a rock 60 ft. above sea-level (about i m. W. of Land's End). The building is of granite, 68 ft. in circumference at base, 52 ft. in height; yet the lantern, which stands more than 100 ft. above the sea, has often been shattered by the waves, which dash clear over its top. LOOE. — There are two Looes, separated by the Looe River. Both of them were distinct boroughs at one time, returning each two members to Parliament. Though hardly now "one of the most primitive places in England," as Wilkie Collins thought it, Looe is still a most attractive place, and it is its very charm that is robbing it of its primitive character. East Looe belonged to the parish of St. Martin's, West Looe to that of Talland ; but both now have churches of their own. In point of former importance, East Looe may claim precedence ; though it was probably the two combined that contributed as many as twenty ships and 315 men to the siege of Calais. The two are united by an eight-arch bridge ; the old narrow bridge, built about 1400, had thirteen arches, and bore a chapel dedicated to St. Anne. St. Martin's, the mother church of East Looe, has a Norm, door, and a font of probably the same date ; at the porch of its town-hall stands the ancient pillory. In West Looe is a pretty little church dedicated to St. Nicholas, once desecrated into a public 166