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beautiful, really comes under the rule which he 

 seems at first to break, that handsome is who hand- 

 some does. 



Another species of Madrepore* was discovered on 

 our Devon coast by Mr, Gosse, more gaudy, though 

 not so delicate in hue as our Caryophyllia ; three of 

 which are at this moment pouting out their conical 

 orange mouths and pointed golden tentacles in a 

 vase on my table, entreating for something to eat. 

 Mr. Gosse's locality, for this and numberless other 

 curiosities, is Ilfracombe, on the north coast of 

 Devon. These last specimens came from Lundy 

 Island, in the mouth of the Bristol Channel, or more 

 properly from that curious "Eat Island" to the 

 south of it, where stiU lingers the black long-tailed 

 English rat, exterminated everywhere else by 

 his sturdier brown cousin of the Hanoverian 

 dynasty. 



Look, now, at these tiny saucers of the thinnest 

 ivory, the largest not bigger than a silver three- 

 pence, which contain in their centres a milk-white 



* Balanophyllia regia, Plate V. Fig. I. 



