CHAPTEK II. 



DRUIDICAL REMAINS— A WRECK OFF SCILLT— GEOLOQT AND ZOOLOGY OF THE 

 ISLES — EFFECT OF LIGHT ON PLANTS AND ANIMALS : HISTORY OF ITS 

 DISCOVERY— THE PirE-FISH AND ITS INCUBATION— FISH PARADOXES— 

 AN AQUARIDM— SUICIDE OF THE STARFISH— THE PLEUROBRANCHUS — 

 DEVELOPMENT OF EOLIS, DORIS, AND ACTiEON— SHELL AND NO SHELL— 

 THE PEDICELLINA : IS IT VIVIPAROUS ?— THE SAGITTA : A PUZZLE TO ZOO- 

 LOGISTS—WHERE THERE IS NO RESPIRATION THERE WILL BE NO CIRCU- 

 LATION — THE CHYLAQUEOUS FLUID OF ANEMONES PROVED NOT TO EXIST — 

 EARLIEST STAGE OF A NUTRITIVE FLUID— FUNCTION OF THE " CONVO- 

 LUTED bands" — DELIGHTS OF LITERATURE. 



The traveller's first wish is Shakespeare's — 



" I pray j-ou, let us satisfy our eyes 

 With the memorials and the things of fame 

 That do renown this city." 



At Scilly there is no city, aiid this non-existent city boasts 

 no " thmgs of fame," unless we choose so to consider the 

 gi-ave where Sir Cloudesley Shovel was first interred, which 

 fTOvms the negative attractions of the Isles by being no 

 grave at all. I am quite serious. They ask you here, whether 

 you have seen the grave ; on investigation, this renowned 

 spot turns out to be destitute even of the rudest stone or 

 landmark to indicate where the bones of the wrecked admi- 

 ral may imaginatively be supposed to lie; it is simply a 

 strip of land on the coast, where no grass will grow by reason 

 of the shifting sand. And yet, if "gossip report" be not 

 wholly a fibber, somewhere in this neighbourhood lie the 



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