PERIWINKLES WHELKS. 



CHAPTER II. 



PERIWINKLES, WHELKS (Purpura, <Ssc.). 



" How tenderly Rousseau review'd 

 His periwinkles mine are strew'd ! 

 My rose blooms on my gown !" 



T. HOOD. 



" Not lost the time in sea-side rambles spent 

 Braced is the frame, and mental health is gain'd ; 

 Knowledge is gain'd of Him who made the deep ; 

 And blissful love acquired of Nature's works, 

 Of which each questioned minim soothly says, 

 The plastic power that form'd us is divine." 



D. LANDSBO ROUGH. 



I SHALL never forget the pleasant surprise I ex- 

 perienced, shortly after arriving in Scotland, on dis- 

 covering the richness of the shores of the Frith of 

 Forth in Periwinkles (Littorina littorea). I had been 

 walking one afternoon from Edinburgh to Portobello, 

 by way of Arthur Seat and Duddingston Loch ; a 

 walk that for variety and picturesqueness of scenery, 

 is, I believe, unsurpassed. On reaching the beach I 

 strolled leisurely along being at that time quite 



