THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. 61 
tepid and shallow waves, affords an abundance 
and variety of animal and vegetable life, unequalled, 
perhaps, in any other part of Great Britain. It 
cannot boast, certainly, of those strange deep-sea 
forms which Messrs. Alder, Goodsir, and Laskey 
dredge among the lochs of the western High- 
lands, and the sub-marine mountain glens of the 
Zetland sea; but it has its own varieties, its 
own ever-fresh novelties: and in spite of all the 
research which has been lavished on its shores, a 
naturalist cannot, I suspect, work there for a winter 
without discovering forms new to science, or meet- 
ing with curiosities which have escaped all ob- 
servers, since the lynx eye of Montagu espied them 
full fifty years ago. 
Follow us, then, reader, in imagination, out of 
the gay watering-place, with its London shops and 
London equipages, along the broad road beneath 
the sunny limestone cliff, tufted with golden furze ; 
past the huge oaks and green slopes of Tor Abbey ; 
and past the fantastic rocks of Livermead, scooped 
by the waves into a labyrinth of double and triple 
