CHAPTER XIV. 



Rapparee Cove — Strange Gravel — Its singular Origin— The 

 Glassy ^quorea — Its Form and Structure — The Forbesian 

 ^quorea — The Bathing-Pool — Medusae therein — Description 

 of a new Species — Its Habits — Luminousness — Distinctive 

 Characters — The Ruby Medusa— Its first Occurrence — Wig- 

 mouth — Production of the Gemmules — Their Appearance — 

 Motion of the Turris — Metamorphosis of the Gemmules — 

 Their Polype-form — Goodness of God in the Beautiful — A 

 Christian's Interest in Nature — The Redeemed Inheritance — 

 The Crystalline Jolinstonella — Its Beauty — Its Doubtful Affi- 

 'nities — The Starry Willsia — Parasitic Leech — Tmread Cap- 

 sules — Nature of these Organs. 



As the visitor pursues the pleasant walk leading 

 through what are called the Quay Fields, he cannot 

 help seeing, here and there, a rather obtrusive direc- 

 tion-board with a finger pointing towards a certain 

 point of the shore, accompanied by the announcement 

 tbat such is the way to Rapparee Cove, whose claims 

 to notice as a bathing place, on account of its 

 privacy and comfort, are somewhat boastfully set 

 forth. 



I visited it, and found it indeed, like so much of 

 the scenery hereabout, sufficiently wild, romantic, and 

 picturesque. It is situated immediately opposite the 

 entrance to the harbour, under the shadow of the 



