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wild rock-bound coast. The first was to Croyde Point, 

 where the consolidated sands were noted, and also the 

 rarity of shells. At Westward Ho he came upon the 

 raised beach " immediately covered by the Head," and 

 traced the raised beach at places near to Morte Point. 

 At Morte Bay he descended to the shore with his 

 sister-in-law, when they found great difficulty in 

 clambering back from the rising tide. Little wonder 

 that wreckage lay scattered near to those awful rocks 

 with their knife-life edges. The chief interest, how- 

 ever, was at Baggy Point, where he was busied in 

 securing specimens of sand, &c., from fragments of the 

 raised beach and " Head." A search was made on 

 the hills near Berrynarbor for the Drift mentioned in 

 the " Guide," but he could find no trace of it. Bide- 

 ford, Barnstaple, and Clovelly were visited in short, 

 every part of the north-west coast of Devon at all 

 accessible was carefully examined. 



From Lynton and Lynmouth a long drive skirting 

 Exmoor took the Professor and his wife down to the 

 comfortable little inn on the shore of Porlock Bay, 

 the former searching at low tide for vestiges of the 

 submerged forest. On the way to church next day by 

 the shore-path outside Lord Lovelace's grounds, the 

 two tourists were struck by the extraordinary luxuri- 

 ance of the shrubs, in especial by the marvellous 

 colouring of the arbutus, all testifying to the mild- 

 ness of the climate. 



Minehead was the next halting-place, whence the 

 coast was examined backward toward Porlock : inland 

 excursions were also made, including a day at Dunster 

 and its neighbourhood. The greatest attraction, how- 

 ever, was the shore at Watchet, where the gypsum 

 beds in the New Red Marl and the Rhsetic Beds and 



