122 GLAL'CUS ; OR, 



were several species of Nudibrancli MoUusca, 

 creatures of remarkable elegance and beauty. 



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*' Meanwhile we put the boat before the wind, 

 and run along the inhospitable coast on our left. 

 "We leave the pleasant vale behind, and skim 

 swiftly by the black rocks of RatclifF Head, and 

 the distorted and confused strata of Goggin's Ber- 

 row. We pass Osmington Mills, where a rather 

 ample sheet of water is poured in a foaming cas- 

 cade over the low cliffs, and where those curious 

 circular blocks of grit-stone, flat on one side and 

 conical on the other, are imbedded with regu- 

 larity on the sandy face of the precipice: and 

 leave on our quarter the rocks, where the 

 abundance of iron pyrites and sulphur has more 

 than once presented the strange phenomenon of 

 spontaneous fire ; a phenomenon distinctly re- 

 membered still by the inhabitants of Weymouth, 

 who night after night used to gaze out with won- 

 der on the burning cliffs. 



" At length we are under Whitenose, that bold 

 chalk cliff that is so prominent an object as the 

 eye roves along the coast line from Weymouth. 

 Here we turn the boat's edge to the southward, 

 and throw the dredge overboard in fourteen 



