CHAPTER V. 



Ilfracombe — Beautiful Scenery — Walk to Watermoutli— Hele — 

 Hockey Lane — Fine Sea-view — Daws — Doves — Charms of 

 Spring — Watermouth — Curious mode of Fishing — Grove of 

 Flowers— Rabbits — Sharp Rocks — Gemmaceous Anemone — 

 Living Madrepores — Their Localities — Appearance— Mode of 

 detaching them — Their Structure — The Plates—Beauty of 

 the Animal — Protrusion of the soft Parts — Their Translu- 

 cency — Analogy with the Anemone — Brilliancy of Colours — 

 Tentacles — Cilia on their Surface — The globose Heads — The 

 Tentacles are tubular — Lnprisoned Animalcule — Sensibility 

 of the Madrepore to Light — Experiments in feeding them — 

 Sense of Taste — Reproduction of Parts— The Frilled Bands 

 — Their Use — Their Structure — Thread- Capsules — Singular 

 Forms of these Organs — The Madrepore easily preserved 

 alive. 



ILFRACOMBE, 



May \st. We are come to sojourn in this charm- 

 ing place, the scenery of which is most beautitul. 

 My study looks out upon the Public Baths, and one 

 or two pretty villas, with the fields of the Runna- 

 cleaves behind them most richly green, sloping up- 

 wards to the edge of the cliffs that border the sea. 

 The sheep, peacefully lying or grazing, speckle with 

 white these verdant slopes: and young ladies come 



