THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. Tks 
a thin layer of muddy sand intervenes between 
two slabs, long Annelid worms of quaintest forms 
and colours have their horizontal burrows, among 
those of that curious and rare radiate animal, the 
Spoonworm,' an eyeless bag about an inch long, 
half bluish grey, half pink, with a strange scalloped 
and wrinkled proboscis of saffron colour, which 
serves, in some mysterious way, soft as it is, to 
collect food, and clear its dark passage through 
the rock. 
See, at the extreme low-water mark, where the 
broad olive fronds of the Laminariz, like fan-palms, 
droop and wave gracefully in the retiring ripples, 
a great boulder which will serve our purpose. Its 
upper side is a whole forest of sea-weeds, large and 
small; and that forest, if you examined it closely, 
as full of inhabitants as those of the Amazon or the 
Gambia. To “beat” that dense cover would be an 
endless task: but on the under side, where no sea- 
weeds grow, we shall find full in view enough to 
occupy us till the tide returns. For the slab, see, is 
' Thalassema Neptuni (Forbes’ British Star-Fishes, p. 259). 
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