162 GLAUCUS; OR, 
known naturalists, is a very garden of Nereus. Tor- 
bay, as may well be supposed, is an admirable 
dredging spot; perhaps its two best points are round 
the isolated Thatcher and Oare-rock, and from the 
mouth of Brixham harbour to Berry Head; along 
which last line, for perhaps three hundred years, the 
decks of all Brixham trawlers have been washed 
down ere running into harbour, and the sea-bottom 
thus stored with treasures scraped up from deeper 
water in every direction for miles and miles. 
Hastings is, I fear, but a poor spot for dredging. 
Its friable cliffs and strong tides produce a change- 
able and barren sea-floor. Yet the immense quan- 
tities of Flustra thrown up after a storm indicate 
dredging ground at no great distance outside; its 
rocks, uninteresting as they are compared with our 
Devonians, have yielded to the industry and science 
of M. Tumanowicz a vast number of sea-weeds and 
sponges. Those three curious polypes, Valkeria 
cuscuta (Plate I. fig. 3), Notamia Bursaria, and 
Serialaria Lendigera, abound within tide-marks ; and 
as the place is so much visited by Londoners, it may 
