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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



FISHING IN SEA-PUDDLES. 



Salcombe. 



FROM the rough map of Salcombe estuary which 

 is given with these notes it will at once be 

 seen what a favourable spot there is on the coast of 



with the irregular conformation of the inland estuary, 

 suggestive — at high water — of a miniature Sydney 

 harbour with arms of the sea penetrating in all 

 directions. In the unoccupied intervals of a fishing 

 excursion, when bass and pollack were outward 

 bound, and spring tides exposed the lowest tidal 



Fig. xd&.~Farrella repens. 



Figs. log.—Crisidia cornuta. 



Fig. no.—Eucratea chelata. 



Figs. xxt.—Sertularia pumila. 



Fig. 112. — Cellipora reptans. 



South Devon for those whose tastes lie in the 

 direction of marine zoology. Visiting the small 

 fishing-town, which is about sixteen miles away from 

 Kingsbridge Road station, in July last, I was struck 



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Fig. 113. — Cycloum papillosum. 



rocks in a convenient manner, I betook myself to the 

 pools amongst the mottled red and green gneiss rocks 

 to see what might be seen and gather treasures from 

 the deep. I suppose Couch, Peach, and Gosse knew 



