282 TWO YOUNG NATURALISTS. 



By degrees as they advanced the cliffs became 

 more broken up. Soon the Needle appeared, and 

 then the Cradle, These rocks stand there like the 

 last vestiges of some cyclopean architecture. After 

 these the beach again, with bathing machines, cap- 

 stans planted in the shingle, and the tarred boats 

 which, when they are no longer sound enough to 

 encounter the perils of the ocean, they make use of 

 for small shops. They had arrived. 



While Uncle Bob, like a thoughtful provider, went 

 to prepare a domicile for the little party, and Lucas 

 was occupied with the boat, the young men went and 

 took a glance at the great rocks that the ebbing tide 

 was beginning to disclose. 



