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well-known naturalists, is a very garden of Nereus. 

 Torbay, as may well be supposed, is an admirable 

 dredging spot ; perhaps its two best points are round 

 the isolated Tliatclier and Oare-rock, and from the 

 mouth of Brixham harbour to Berry Head; along 

 which last line, for perhaps three hundred years, the 

 decks of all Brixham trawlers have been washed 

 down ere running into harbour, and the sea-bottom 

 thus stored with treasures scraped up from deeper 

 water in every direction for miles and miles. 



Hastings is, I fear, but a poor spot for dredging. 

 Its friable cliffs and strong tides produce a change- 

 able and barren sea-floor. Yet the immense quanti- 

 ties of riustra thrown up after a storm indicate 

 dredging ground at no great distance outside ; its 

 rocks, uninteresting as they are compared with our 

 Devonians, have yielded to the industry and science 

 of M. Tumanowicz a vast number of sea-weeds and 

 sponges. Those three curious polypes, Valkeria 

 Cuscuta (Plate I. Fig. 4), Notamia Bursaria, and 

 Serialaria Lendigera, abound within tide marks ; and 

 as the place is so much visited by Londoners, it may 



