CHAPTER IX. 



SEA-SIDE PLANTS, BIRDS, DRIFTWOOD, ETC. 



COAST scenery is so varied in its character that it is 

 impossible to describe it, without localizing ; and our 

 plan prevents us from indicating any place. Nothing 

 can be more dissimilar than the eastern and western 

 shores of the British Islands, the one flat, sandy, 

 shingly, with few harbours, and a slightly-indented 

 coastline ; the other rock-bound, with bluff headlands, 

 abounding in harbours, and deep bays which penetrate 

 far into the land, while all exposed places are lashed 

 by the heavy swells of the Atlantic. A person who has 



