122 JULY. 



at the Station) of " Baldoyle and Sutton," "Bal- 

 doyleand Button/ 7 "Tickets, gentlemen!'' "Tickets! 

 tickets ! tickets !" when, having alighted, and com- 

 plied with the request for our tickets, if they are single 

 journey ones, or given up the half if return ones, we 

 walk along the platform descend the steps, and, turn- 

 ing to our left, proceed along the lane in the direction 

 of the " Howth Road," into which the lane leads. 

 And here, already, we are in good collecting-ground, 

 for the lane is walled on each side by turf walls ; and, 

 perhaps, it may not be amiss to describe these walls, 

 which afford such good collecting. They are mostly 

 about three or four feet high, by eighteen inches thick, 

 and are composed of alternate layers of grassy turf, 

 placed topsy-turvy, i. e. with the grassy side down- 

 wards and the earthy side upwards, and layers of ditch 

 mud, or earth wetted with water, and mixed with short 

 straw ; these walls, as a matter of course, present an 

 admirable surface for the propagation of plants of 

 every conceivable kind, as from their form they pre- 

 sent different aspects, together with great shelter for 

 insects ; and when of a considerable age are covered 

 with an extremely rank vegetation, rivalling our most 

 luxuriant hedge-banks ; while in the hollows or dry 

 ditches at their base the burdock, thistle, knapweed, 

 wild rose, sweetbriar, brambles, and a host of other 

 plants, grow freely. 



Having arrived at the bottom of the lane, we are in 

 the " Howth Road ;" we must now turn to our left, 

 and, continuing a short distance along the road, take 

 the first turning on our right, at the bottom of which 

 is the Sandy Beach of Sutton ; turning to our left, and 



