REMARKABLE ROCKS

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 16

REMARKABLE ROCKS

WHERE FACES ARE SEEN Every holiday-maker in Britain knows at least one rock popularly endowed with human features. One ot the best- known is the Lady at the Organ, in the Lake District. certain points this big rock and little rock bear a striking resemblance to a woman with her hands upon the keyboard of 'an instrument. Thousands know the Punch Rock at Llandudno. It is more like some heathen idol carved by the hand of Nature, hut it certainly' has the humorous aspect, large features, and hump, which suggests Judy s famous partner. , , . . Nut far from Ripon, in Yorkshire, there is.a real idol rock. Jt looks like those rude carvings one associates with Easter Island, or those carved by Indians on totem poles. It is one of the most remarkable poised rocks wo have, and is situated in a beautiful countryside. , Many of the rocks and chfis, winch make up Land’s End have been endowed with human features. 'There is Dr Johnson, for instance; if one catches the features trom the right angle, he can "see the famous lexicographer in the stone very well. Not far away' is Dr Syntax. He weighs many' tons, for he is a ponderous rock, but one can see the simple taco of the old clergyman carved by the cunning hand of rain and wind and frost. At Lizard Point, also in Cornwall, there is the Bishop’s Rock. People often fail at first to see anything human in this rock, but_ the longer they look the more distinct do the smiling and benign features become. A prominent object pointed out to holiday-makers in the Trossochs is the Cobbler. It is a huge rock on the top of a mountain, and a nearby and much smaller rock is called the Cobbler’s Wife, Jean. A white patcli on the mountainside is supposed to be the pail of milk Jean has spilt.