north, the waves of the British channel on the south, and on the west, these two channels united; with no other visible bound than the spanless horizon. At a distance of seven leagues to the west, the Scilly Isles were distinguishable. Exactly opposite, about a mile from shore, lay a ridge of rocks, unning north to south, called " Long Ships;" on the highest of which, stands a light-house, erected about forty years ago. So rough a sea generally prevails, that, for months together, a boat cannot near this building; for which reason it is victualled for six months: two shoemakers living there, to mind the light. who pursue their vocation, to fill up the vacuity of their unchanging career. The sea was enlivened by many sail, of which I descried above a hundred. Towards the north west, is Cape Cornwall; and the bay between it and the Land's End is named Sennon Bay, where several fishermen live; who often draw their seine in the bay, where they catch pullocks, which are more esteemed than those caught elsewhere. A rock beneath, projecting southwards, which stands isolated in the sea, is called the Guller Rock, or Armed Knight. There is scarcely a rock in this locality, which has not a name by which it is known. To the south-west, about thirteen miles distant, is the wolf, a half-tide rock, (visible only when the water is as low as halftide,) and therefore very dangerous. A pillar is being erected on it, which is already raised above high water mark. I now descended the steep declive, which leads to the western promontory of rock, emphatically called the Land's End. My guide, Francis Wallis, pointed out a stone, at the top of a column of rock, about an hundred yards to the south of where we stood, called DR. JOHNSON'S HEAD. We were now descending upon the rocky promontory, when Wallis led me to the brink of a precipice, about an hundred feet above the sea. "Look here!" said he, G. (pointing to a piece of unturfed ground, and to the impression of an horse-shoe) " It is now twenty-nine years since an officer rode down this perilous descent, on horseback; and as he was riding up again, the saddle, whose girths were loose, slipped back; when the girths, coming across the horse's haunches, he gibed, and began backing down, which he continued doing, till he reached this precipice. Then the bold adventurer's friends cried out, 'Throw yourself off; you are close to the precipice!' He did so; and fell on the ground, with his feet about one yard from the brink! He was no sooner off; than the horse reared up on his hind legs, and went over. horse, falling on a sharp rock, was cut in two, as if he had been sawn asunder;-his forequarters falling on one side of the rock, and his hind-quarters on the other." Francis Wallis said that he witnessed the whole, and that the officer, who thus providentially escaped, is now living in the person of General Sir Thomas Bartlett. The Frank Wallis now proceeded, through clefts of colossal rocks, and along banks of precipices, towards the Land's End; when, coming to a large stone, he told me I should see it move; he soon made it log (or shake;) and then asked me my opinion of its weight. "Your Logan rock," said I, "is eight feet high, six wide, and six thick." abouts, sir," said Frank Wallis. multiplied together, give 288 cubic feet," and as fifteen feet of granite weigh a ton, your Logan rock at Land's End weighs above nineteen." "There "These We then progressed, till we arrived at the last projecting rock, which was like a turret, and not many feet above the water, and this he pronounced to be Land's End. I met at this ultima thule of the Far West, a dignified and urbane gentleman, who, seeing I was a stranger, imparted to me no little intelligence concerning this interesting locality. His manners were elegant; his conversation had the stamp of learning; and he felicitously exercised that flow of speech and copia verborum, the attainment and right use of which are rarely blended. His last remark was, that on the extreme rock of that majestic promontory Wesley composed the often quoted hymn, of which I have above set forth part of the second verse. On parting, I shook hands with this venerable gentleman; who, I have reason to believe, was the Rev. Mr. Buller, Rector of St. Just, a place on the northern coast, about five miles distant. Regretting that I could not spend a day or two in surveying the multicapsular curiosities of this region, I unwillingly withdrew from the majestic and interesting scene; but I retired from it much gratified, and more than ever impressed with the mighty works of creative energy. The local sublimity of the Land's End affords a commanding view of oceanick expanse; and the colossal columns of rock give an awful effect to the stupendous vision; whilst, added to those grave and elevating sentiments, consequent on so grand |