BOC: Lost Christabel

[Andrew A. Apold]

>I'm sure this is rerunning an earlier debate, but I can't see how Lost
>Christabel is anywhere except in Cornwall. That's where the song begins;
>the lighthouse at Lost Christabel is at "the strand where Grandad's house
>was built"; and as Grandad's house is in Cornwall, so must Lost
>Christabel be. It's a simple syllogism.

Perhaps it is meant to be a double ambiguity of serveral places...

>   It's probably just a coincidence, but there is in Cornwall a place
>name prefixed with "Lost". There's a place called Withiel, and there's
>also a place called Lostwithiel. I've no idea how common it is around the
>world to prefix place names with the word "Lost" though.
>

Perusing through my atlas (only desk version, don't keep larger ones at
work), I come across only one:

Lost Nation, in Iowa.  Have no idea where they got this name or what they
intend it to mean, though.
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Roger Shrubstaff        (Andrew A. Apold)
Chancellor                "I was corrupt before I had power!" - Random
Barony of Silverwater
Kingdom of the Burning Lands