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splendid : a mass of light quite illuminated the space under the boat. 

 Individually the creatures were best likened to spangles of silver, the 

 hole in the centre and slit representing the little worm, and the flattened 

 disc its luminosity. I brought up abundance of them in the dredge, but 

 they were too frail and minute for preservation, and I had no micro- 

 scope to examine them with. 



" On getting up this morning I found a levee in attendance, having 

 coins, &c, for the Dean, and birds' eggs, Echini, and rocks, for me. The 

 Dean got nothing good ; I got choughs, and upwards of a hundred eggs 

 of sea-fowl, but, most valuable, a quantity of tj^e Echinus lividus of 

 Lamarck. This creature burrows in the limestone rocks, making a 

 teacup-like cavity, in which it holds with great pertinacity ; it is be- 

 sides well to look at, having large spines, and being of a rich purple 

 colour. Having set a fellow to clean out the specimens, we proceeded 

 to the shore, the Dean again bent on furthering my pursuits, searching 

 under stones, &c, for all manner of creeping things. He soon found a 

 species of Holothuria which I have not as yet made out. I found the 

 Syngnathus ophidion, new, I believe, to Ireland ; and a few Algae, which 

 will add to your collection. I caught the Cetonia aurata (?) and another 

 Cetonia. 



"We here found a poor fisherman with a single lobster-pot and a 

 rod; he had just caught the largest lobster I ever saw, which he would 

 have sold for a sixpence. He told us he was too poor to be able to 

 attend to or have more than one lobster-pot ; and I am sure he would 

 not take a present of another, having always had only one. It would 

 take more than a generation to effect any improvement in such a 

 people. 



" Seeing a building on the high ground, we asked our guide what it 

 was ; he could give us no other answer than, 'we calls it the look-out/ 

 However, as it seemed too good a structure to be of recent date, we 

 climbed our way to it, and were rewarded. It proved to be a well- 

 executed little building of cut stone, 1 1 ft. long inside, by 6 ft. 8 in. 

 in breadth, having a curious door 5 ft. 6 in. high, and 1 ft. 4 in. wide 

 at top, expanding to 2 feet at the bottom ; the height of the side walls 

 only 5 ft. 2 in. ; it had a very steep roof. The door was so narrow 

 that no ordinary man could get in, except sideways. The savages are 

 pulling down the little edifice from mere wantonness. It was not, 

 perhaps, a Christian church, as its direction is contrary to that given in 



