CHAPTER VI. 



A Walk to Hele — Bird's-eye View of the Harbour — Quay Fields 

 — Lion Rock — Hele Strand — A threatened Shipwreck — Eu- 

 cratea — Description — Mode of Growth — Form of the Cell — • 

 Structure of the Polype — Tentacles — Digestive System — Mus- 

 cular Bands — Evanescence of the radiate Character — Root- 

 Thread — Snake-head Coralline— Frill — Vermicular Organs — 

 Door and Hinge — Ciliated Cellularia — Cells — Spines — Birds' 

 Heads — Their Motions — Slimy Laomedea — Structure of a 

 Sertularian Zoophyte — Its Contraction — Marginal Folds of 

 the Cell — Researches in Gastronomy — Anemones cooked — 

 Eaten — Commended — Best mode of preparing them — Anthea 

 tried. 



A pleasant walk of about a mile leads to Hele, a 

 picturesque village, inhabited chiefly by gardeners, 

 laundresses, donkey-keepers and other persons, whose 

 subsistence is largely dependent on summer visitors 

 to Ilfracombe. There is a foot-path through the 

 fields to it, which is pleasanter than the carriage-road, 

 and is a favourite walk with me. I like to stand in 

 the quiet lane above the shipbuilder's yard, end look 

 down upon the harbour, as I lean over the iron rail 

 that guards the steep bushy cliff. The fishing-boats 

 are perhaps just come in from trawling on the oppo- 

 site side of the Channel, and the idlers are crowding 

 down to the quay-steps to see the fish as it is landed. 

 Pleasure skiff's full of laughing ladies and attentive 



