100 ADIEU TO THE SOUTH. 



Here end my littoral researches in South Devon. 

 My residence there was not attended with that 

 improvement in health, that had been looked for, 

 and I determined to try the more bracing climate of 

 the northern coast. At the end of April, before yet 

 the pertinacious easterly winds that characterised the 

 spring of 1852 had ceased, when all nature seemed 

 scarcely more advanced than I had seen it three 

 months before, I bade adieu to Marychurch. I left 

 behind unexplored much well worth visiting; many 

 of the beautiful coves and rocks in the vicinity I had 

 not even seen ; my infirm health, and the frequent pre- 

 valence of a heavy surf upon the shore, caused by the 

 undeviating wind setting full on the coast, prevented 

 my making so full use of a three months' littoral 

 residence as I could have wished. 



