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coast of Devon with the intention of seeing the island, and 

 of investigating its productions, but it is a matter of great 

 uncertainty whether you will be able to land when you get 

 there; for should an easterly breeze spring up, your chance 

 of doing so is destroyed, for the only landing-place is at the 

 south-east corner of the island, in a little bay, formed by the 

 offshoot of two small blocks of granite, the outermost being 

 called Rat Island. 



On both occasions, when I journeyed there, I was fortunate 

 in being able to land with the greatest ease in a small boat 

 from the steamer ; the days were fine, and my success, taking 

 everything into consideration, highly satisfactory. 



My experience as an* Hymenopterist led me at once to the 

 southern end of the island, where stands the remains of 

 Morisco Castle with its moated rampart. 



I fancy that on landing, I experienced just a spark of the 

 rapture that fires an Entomologist on landing in a foreign 

 country. Alas ! it was quickly extinguished, for the first in- 

 sect that I saw was BomTjus lucorum on the flowers of the 

 common bramble— the bee and the bramble quite dispelled 

 the illusion. There is a steep roadway at the landing-place; 

 this I avoided, and clambered up an irregular footpath to the 

 left in the direction of the castle ; this slope was covered 

 thickly with brambles, coarse grass and clumps of ragwort ; 

 on gaining the upper level I still progressed to the left, and 

 near the castle found clumps of purple heath in flower, and 

 large patches, white with the common yarrow {Achillea 

 millefolium), and on this plant I made my best captures. 

 I proceeded onward to the furthest point at the southern end 

 of the island, called Shutters' Point. I retraced my steps as 

 far as the castle, at the back of which a roadway leads in 

 the direction of the village, visible from this spot, and lead- 

 ing also to the lighthouse; on reaching the first buildings I 



