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of the scheme, either at his own house at Torquay, 

 or at the Liiinaean or Microscopic Society. 



In the meanwhile, to show something of what 

 such a class might be, let me put myself, in ima- 

 gination, in Mr. Gosse's place, and do his work for 

 him for half-an-hour, though in a far more shallow 

 and clumsy way. 



Leaving Weymouth to him, let me take you to 

 a shore where I am more at home, and for whose 

 richness I can vouch, and choose our season and 

 our day to start forth, on some glorious morning 

 of one of our Italian springs, to see what last 

 night's easterly gale has swept from the populous 

 shallows of Torbay, and cast up, high and dry, on 

 Paignton sands. 



Torbay is a place which should be as much 

 endeared to the naturalist as to the patriot and to 

 the artist. AVe cannot gaze on its blue ring of 

 water, and the great limestone bluffs which bound 

 it to the north and south, without a glow passing 

 through our hearts, as we remember the terrible and 

 glorious pageant which passed by in the glorious 



