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being an able-bodied man with a crowbar, and we will 

 consequently send him on in the van when we com- 

 mence operations. We can do nothing without our 

 man and the crowbar ; his office is to turn over all 

 those large weed-covered angular rocks which lie at 

 the verge of the ebb-tide — those stones which are 

 never moved even by the roughest weather, and 

 under whose sure protection lie all the rarest and 

 most delicate anemones, besides all manner of other 

 wonders which have not a place in our present 

 records. To show you how great a difference so 

 small a matter as a bar of iron may make, I will tell 

 you the experience of two parties of naturalists who 

 left Ilfracombe for Lundy in the summer of 1851. 

 They went down in the same steamer, and searched 

 the same rocks (Lamitor and Rat Island) at the 

 same time. The first division despised crowbars, 

 and thought theii' eyes were more to be trusted, 

 but unfortunately, though they could probably see 

 through a brick wall as well as their friends, they 

 could not see through a sea-weed covered rock, and 

 if they could have done so they could not get at 

 what lay beneath; so their experience was, that 

 they returned almost empty-handed, and preferred 

 the Ilfracombe tunnels to the Lundy crags. Well, 

 the second x^arty were wiser, as it proved, and conse- 

 quently exported a man and a crowbar, and by dint 

 of diligent stone-turning for the space of two hours, 

 they were able to return laden with all imaginable 



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