Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-15

clear Weatner- A Styg1an panorama is presented to the traveller who stands at night upon this point of rocks. To the south the low clouds are seen to be lighted up at short intervals by the blinding flashes of the Lizard lights, the most powerful of all the mariners, landmarks, casting a reflection over seventy miles of sea; while in front the lurid shafts of the Longships Tow CT. Further away to the east the aw- full blackness punctuated by the re- volving light on Wolf ock.
 The tongue of land of which the promontory is the tip is pinched by two bays-St. Ives to the north, and Mounts Bay to the souh, the distance between he wo being about three miles. In this ingui-formed area, comprising some 40 square miles, are to be found hundreds of ancient ruins, the de- light of the archaeologist and anti Quary. Cairns, cromlechS, barrowS and
 sepuichral urns, and Druidic temries or "henges," are found in profusion. side by side with timeworn symbols of the Christian religion. Richard Edmonds, secretary for Cornwall to the Cambrian Archaeological Asosci-
 ation, published in 1862 an excellent
 treatise on the antiquities of the dis trict.
 TO his territory fin days remote came the rich Phenecian merchants to exchange their trinkets for tin; the
 
 the warlike Cornish; the piratical Danes occasionally overran the lard; and it was here that the bluff Saxons overthrow the army of Howel, the Ia st of the Cornish kings Here also the Christian faith dawned upon England Long before the proselytizing of St. Augustine and his monks the Cornish Rritons had their church and the an- cient symbols of their religion may still be seen on the moor and by the waysides.
 Ten miles east of Panzance the road leading to that haunt of old-time
 some sight of interest to the pedestri- an who passes "The First and Lass Inn in England; the Policeman. a large granite block which tradition Saxon kings; the old Semen church; 1; a burial ground formerly used by the Qualers; the Druid circle, BoscaweD- un; the Catch all Inn; Nancothan or beautifully wooded grounds of Trereife, the hill of which is capped by an an cient cross"
 "A short walk east from Penzance brings one to Narration, or Market Jew, so called because the Jews once piled the tin trade there- South from here is St. MichaePs Mount, the an ciently renowned Iktfs described 0y Diodorus Siculus. Writing of the tin trade as pursued forty or fifty years
 before the beginning of our era, Dio- dorus says: These prepare the tin, working very skillfully in the earth which produces it. Then, when they
 have cast it in the form of cubes they carry it into a certain island adjoin- ing to Britain and called Iktis. For during the recess of the tide the in
 tervenfng space is left dry, and they
 carry over abundance of tin to this
 place in their carts. From thence the traders purchase the tin of the natives and transport it into Gaul."
 "Edmonds discovered a bronze fur mace in Narration, brought there by the
 Phenecians and used in smelling tin.
 He says: The period when Mounts
 clans is supposed to be more than
 three thousand years ago for the tin
 so common in Palestine in the time of
 Moses, was not dug from that land,
 some remote islands known only to
 themselvesfl respecting which Hero
 dotus says, Tt is nevertheless certain
 that our tin is brought from these ex-
 treme regions These islands are not allowed to be the British Islands, of
 which the only part ever distinguished for the export of tin is Cornwall About 1513 Narration was plundered and burned by a body of armed men
 who landed from fleet of French war ships.
 Writing in 1908, w H. Hudson, the naturalist, lamented that the Lands
 End and vicinity was being parcelled out for building purposes, and prayed ownership, for not Stonehenge. nor
 Mona, nor Senlac, nor that hoary fane
 where Britain buries her great dead, nor any castle or cathedral, or tower
 or river or mountain or plain in all the
 land draws us so powerfully as this
 it's ancient dim memories and associ- ations."