REMARKABLE ROCKS WHERE FACES ARE SEEN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 11

REMARKABLE ROCKS WHERE FACES ARE SEEN

WIND AND RAIN FREAKS. Every holiday maker in Britain knows at least one rock popularly endowed with human features. Ouc of the best-known is the Lady at. the Organ, in the Lake District. From certain points this big rock and little rock bear a striking resemblance to a woman with her hands up-on the keyboard of an instrument. Thousands know the Punch Roek at Llandudno. It is- more like some heathen idol carved by the hand of Nature, but it certainly has the humorous aspect, large features, and hump, which suggest. Judy’s famous partner. Not far from Ripon, in Yorkshire, there is a real idol rock. It 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 we have, and is situated in a beautiful countryside. Many of the rocks and cliffs, which make up Land’s End have been endowed with human features. There is Dr Johnston, for instance; if one catches the features from the right angle, he can see th- famous lexicographer in tho stone very well. Not far away is Dr Syntax. He weighs many tons, for ho is a ponderous roek, but one can see the simple face of tho 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 Trossacbs is the Cobbler. It is a hugo rock on the top f a mountain, and a nearby and much smaller rock is called the Cobbler’s Wife Jean. A white patch on the mountainside is supposed to be the pail of milk Jean has spilt.