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become a favourite haunt, not only for invalids, but 
for naturalists. Indeed, it may well claim the 
honour of being the original home of marine - 
zoology and botany in England, as the Firth of 
Forth, under the auspices of Sir J. G. Dalyell, has 
been for Scotland. For here worked Montagu, 
Turton, and Mrs. Griffith, to whose extraordinary 
powers of research English marine botany almost owes 
its existence, and who survived to an age long 
beyond the natural term of man, to see; in her cheer- 
ful and honoured old age, that knowledge become 
popular and general which she pursued for many a 
year unassisted and alone. Here, too, the scientific 
succession is still maintained by Mr. Pengelly and 
Mr. Gosse, the latter of whom by his delightful and, 
happily, well-known books has done more for the 
study of marine zoology than any other living man. 
Torbay, moreover, from the variety of its rocks, 
aspects, and sea-floors, where limestones alternate 
with traps, and traps with slates, while at the 
valley-mouth the soft sandstones and hard conglo- 
merates of the new red series slope down into the 
