92 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



surge. All the world, since the publication of 

 Darwin's delightful " Voyage of the Beagle," and 

 of Williams's " Missionary Enterprises," knows, 

 or ought to know, enough about them : for those 

 who do not, there are a few pages in the begin- 

 ning of Dr. Landsborough's " British Zoophytes," 

 well worth perusal. 



There are a few other true cellepore corals 

 round the coast. The largest of all, Cervicornis, 

 may be dredged a few miles outside on the Ex- 

 mouth bank, with a few more Tubulipores ; but 

 all tiny things, the lingering, and, as it were, 

 expiring remnants of that great coral-world, 

 which, through the abysmal depths of past 

 ages, formed here in Britain our limestone hills, 

 storing up for generations yet unborn the ma- 

 terials of agriculture and architecture. Inex- 

 pressibly interesting, even solemn, to those who 

 will think, is the sight of these puny parasites, 

 which, as it were, connect the ages and the 

 zones : yet not so solemn and full of meaning as 

 that tiny relic of an older world, the little pear- 

 shaped Turbinolia, (cousin of the Madrepores 

 and Sea-anemones,) found fossil in the Suffolk 

 Crag, and yet still lingering here and there alive 

 in the deep water off Scilly and the west coast 



