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then, the roof of the cavern having fallen in, by gradually widening it, and 

 so converting a cave into a ravine. Similar instances of this kind of 

 action I have also met with at the base of Ingleborough, in Yorkshire. 



The district of which Castleton is the centi-e is one in which the 

 student of the marvels of creation will find much to instruct and interest 

 him. Here he will find a record of some of the changes to which our 

 globe has been subjected at the hands of Him who by His Almighty fiat 

 said " Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place and 

 let the dry land appear ;" who has settled the bounds of the different 

 animals inhabiting the same, and who has fitted it for the welfare and 

 happiness of man, the last and greatest of His productions. 



PEOFESSOE EDWAED FOEBES AND HIS COUNTEY. 



BY ROBERT GARNER, F.L.S. 



Since any district or hunting-ground which is appropriated to the 

 study of natui'al history loses much of its productiveness and interest 

 if it does not embrace a portion of the seaboard, or, at any rate, if there 

 is no occasional excursion made with the object of studying marine zoology 

 and botany, the following paper relating to one portion of the Isle of 

 Man may not be out of place in the " Midland Naturalist," especially as 

 its coasts, together with those of North Wales, are more easily accessible 

 to Midlanders than any others, and the island is especially rich in all 

 marine productions, whether botanical or zoological. 



When the writer of this paper saw for the first time the still-regretted 

 Naturahst whose name occurs at the head of it, he could not fail to be 

 struck with his intellectual appearance, juvenile look, exj)ressive eyes, 

 and somewhat truant hair. This was in 1839, as he spoke in his section 

 at the meeting of the British Association at Birmingham, the year and 

 place, we think, which gave birth to the Ked Lion Club, consisting of 

 himself and other congenial spirits. His then auditor, who was also his 

 senior, little expected that so many years after his death, (which took 

 place in 1854,) circumstances which may be termed fortuitous would 

 bring it about that himself, with tastes not very different fi'om those of 

 poor Forbes, should become acquainted with the family estate, and be 

 domiciled for a time at the homestead which belonged to him ; also hear 

 his praise from the worthy old Manxman who accompanied him in his 

 rambles and dredgings ; to whom, as to all with whom he had intercourse, 

 he became much endeared. The old man recounted, amongst other 

 things, with what glee Forbes found a rare Area (tetragona) in the mud 

 which filled the valves of a Modiola ; his gournumdisc in respect to the 

 raw mollusks of the scallops, (called tanrogans by the natives ;) his long 

 and lithe fingers allowing nothing to escape them ; and the interest he 

 took in a beetle which the narrator brought to him— three-spined, and 

 which burrowed in the roads— probably a Typhaus or bull-comber, 

 (Auglice.) 



