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life, unequalled, perhaps, in any other part of 

 Great Britain. It cannot boast, certainly, of those 

 strange deep-sea forms which Messrs. Alder, Goodsii^ 

 and Laskey dredge among the lochs of the western 

 Highlands, and the sub-marine mountain glens of 

 the Zetland sea; but it has its own varieties, its 

 own ever-fresh novelties : and in spite of all the 

 research which has been lavished on its shores, a 

 naturalist cannot now work there for a winter 

 without discovering forms new to science, or meet- 

 ing with curiosities wdiich have escaped all ob- 

 servers, since the lynx eye of Montagu esj)ied them 

 full fifty years ago. 



Follow us, then, reader, in imagination, out of 

 the gay watering-place, with its London shops and 

 London equipages, along the broad road beneath 

 the sunny limsetone chff, tufted with golden furze ; 

 past the huge oaks and green slopes of Tor Abbey ; 

 and past the fantastic rocks of Livermead, scooped 

 by the waves into a labyrinth of double and triple 

 caves, like Hindoo temples, upborne on pillars 

 banded with yellow and white and red, a week's 



