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XIII 

 A SUMMER TRIP. 



How many Englishmen, I wonder, at a competitive ex- 

 amination, could tell one anythin^^ definite about Lundy 

 Island, whither we have come over to-day, like Mrs. 

 John Gilpin 'on pleasure bent,* with our baskets and 

 our bottles duly packed to enjoy a day's outing. A 

 boat from Clovelly has brought us across gaily enough 

 (in calm weather) : and here we are, safe and sound, 

 prepared to explore the zoological and botanical pecu- 

 liarities of rugged little Lundy. There is an old story 

 of a Scotch minister in one of the little islets of the 

 Clyde mouth who once prayed for the welfare of Great 

 Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae, and the adjacent islands 

 of Great Britain and Ireland. The good man's simple 

 insularity recalls to one's mind a certain wider insularity 

 which we all of us share. When most people speak of 

 the British Isles they probably have in their mind's eye 

 only the two main elements of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 without considering the * adjacent islands * at all : and 

 even if they thought a little upon the subject they would 

 not be likely to reckon up more than some dozen others 

 of the largest sort— such as Wight, Man, Anglesey, 

 Orkney, Shetland, Skye, and Jura. But a geographical 



