FISH NOTES 213 



INTERESTING FINDS 



I know of no spot so interesting to the naturalist 

 as the tide-mark at the seaside. Just where the 

 highest billow reached will often be found deposited 

 a great variety of nature's trifles, seaweed usually 

 predominating. There are times, of course, when 

 the tide-mark is barren so much so, indeed, that 

 it is difficult to locate it. At others every step 

 brings the rambler to some or several objects of 

 interest. Westerly winds in summer are responsible 

 for the "drawing up" of much seaweed of the 

 finer kinds; an easterly and northerly gale flings 

 ashore the brown weeds the tangle, fuci, and the 

 ribbon-weed. Various mollusca and Crustacea come 

 ashore with the east winds ; a southerly wind brings 

 nothing. In the finer days, when the draw-netters 

 are at work, the probabilities of finding higher forms 

 of life are greater. The following "notes," taken 

 verbatim from my diary, may be worthy of perusal : 



April 6, 1900. Strolled this afternoon to the 

 harbour mouth. Two lots of draw-netters at 

 work, in quest of Smelts, of which thirty were 

 taken in one haul. Other fishes were a Salmon- 

 Trout, plenty of Pogges, small Herrings, Flounders, 



