Aiton’s Encyclopedia
A Practical Reference Library in Five Volumes — keyed from the public-domain original
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Land's End

the southwestern extremity of England in Cornwall. It is a granite promontory from sixty to 100 feet in height. The name is the exact equivalent of Finistere, or "End of the Earth," found elsewhere on the western coast of Europe. A lighthouse on some low rocks marks the beginning of the English channel.

Volume III · Aiton’s Encyclopedia