THE HERRING GULL. 



LAR US ARGENT A TUS. 



THERE is something very refreshing in the change 

 from the inland to the littoral ; and there must 

 be few indeed who have not experienced that 

 delightful flow of spirits and quickened pulsation 

 which always supervene when we leave the hot and 

 dry and dusty country, and are brought gradually 

 within sight of the far-resounding sea. 



As we are whirled along by the express, the 

 country becomes more bare and open ; the woods 

 gradually disappear ; the song-birds are left behind, 

 and gulls and peewits take their place ; while 

 through the open window, in spite of dust and 

 steam, a delicious briny air comes rushing in, which 

 at once dispels all sense of fatigue, and makes us 

 long to get out, and breathe, and live in it. How 

 complete and grateful is the change which modern 



