CHAPTER 11. 



SUPERIOR CHARMS OF MARINE-HDNTING — MORNING LABOURS — THE HERMIT- 

 CRABS— CORSICAN BROTHEnS— FOOD OF THE CRAB — A COMICAL FISH — 

 ZOOLOGICAL PARADOXES— STUDY OF NATURE — VITALITY OF SKI'ARATED 

 PARTS— DEFINITION OF LIFE— ORGANIC LAW OF DIVISION OF LABOUR — 

 THE TEREBELLA : ITS SPONTANEOUS FISSION (BONNET'S EXPERIMENTS), 

 ITS TWO CIRCULATING FLUIDS, AND DOUBLE RESPIRATION— STRUCTURE 

 AND FUNCTION OF ITS TENTACLES — ERRONEOUS USE OF THE TERMS 

 MUSCLE AND NERVE — ALWAYS CARRY A BASKET — THE LANES OF ILFRA- 

 COMBE. 



In the previous Chapter, I endeavoured to convey some idea 

 of the cliarms which the naturalist and amateur may find in 

 the dark fissures of fro'WTiing rocks, the endless occupation 

 and amusement of clambering over ridges, creeping under 

 ledges, wriggling into crevices, or exploring the under side of 

 boulders, Avhile a summer sun is gleaming over the retiring 

 sea, and the wliite gulls are hovering almost as lazily as the 

 whiter clouds hangino; in the blue above them. Above and 

 around, the landscape ; in pools and crevices, the game ; and 

 by your side, pleasant companions eager as yourself My 

 description of these delights may have been thought entliusi- 

 astic by those to whom such pleasures are unknown ; but in 

 trutli no enthusiasm is adequate, no description can reach the 

 vividness of reality; the best description is but thin and 

 meagre, following beggar-like in the footsteps of Eealit}'. 

 The language of enthusiasm may serve to convey to others 



