CHAPTER XII. 



A Visit to Smallmouth Caves— Chasm formed by a Rock- slip- 

 View of Samson's Bay — Samson's Cave — Smallmouth — 

 Natural Timnel— View of Combmartin Bay— Brier Cave- 

 Abundance of Animals — The Twining Campanularia— Form 

 of its Cells— The Polypes— The Egg- Vesicles— Birth of a 

 Medusoid— Its Form and Structure— Tentacles— Eyes— Cir- 

 culating Canals-Alternation of Generations— Ride towards 

 Barricane — A Showery Journey — Lee — Damage Farm — A 

 romantic Dell — Devonshire Wells — Rockham Bay — White 

 Pebbles— Morte Stone — Shipwreck — Gallant Exploit— Morte 

 — Tomb of De Tracy — Approach of a Storm — Kestrels — ■ 

 Parasites on a Crab— The Bristle Plumularia— Birth of its 

 Young — Dissolution — The Lobster's Horn Coralline — Second- 

 ary Cells — Suggestion of their Purpose — Egg-Vesicles — 

 Birth of the Planiile — Its Development into the Polype-form 

 —Death. 



SMALLMOUTH CAVES. 



Aug. 2nd. — I paid another visit io Watermouth 

 and Smallmouth, principally for the purpose of seeing 

 the perforations and caverns of the latter place. The 

 road thither was of course the same as when I had 

 traversed it three months before, but the almost entire 

 change of the accompaniments made the effect differ- 

 ent. The flowers that had adorned the banks in May 

 had left scarcely a representative, and comparatively 

 few new ones had sprung up in their place. Of these 

 few, however, one of the prettiest was the perfoliate 



