24 A MANUAL 



CHAPTEE II. 



WHERE IS A SEA-ANEMONE TO BE FOUND ? 



Let us go down to the rocks together. It is a 

 glorious afternoon in the early summer time. A 

 cool sea-wind is blowing from the westward; and 

 the vertical sun-blaze is quenched from time to 

 time by solitary masses of soft white cloud majes- 

 tically rolling in from Lundy, or dimmed by those 

 delicatelj^-barred and fringed troops of cirri which 

 are sailing in the upper current of air from the far- 

 off line of the Welsh Mountains. Yesterday a hea\y 

 ground-sea was surging in from the Atlantic, but now 

 a scarcely perceptible rise and fall of the waveless 

 tide is swirling among the distant peaks of rock, 

 and playing with the sea-weed tangles, as a strong 

 man with the glistening tresses of the wife of 

 his heart. 



The tides are at their " spring," with a fall of two- 

 and-thirty feet, and another hour will bring us to the 

 flood — what more, then, can a naturalist desire? 



