CHAPTER. II. 



Petit Tor — Squirrel — Limestone Ledge — Stone-borers — Anemones 

 and Sea-weeds — Clear Rock-pools — Daisy Anemone — Diffi- 

 culty of procuring Specimens — Mode of Operation — A 

 Metamorphosis — Description of the Species — Tentacles — 

 Colours — Varieties — Habits — Structure of the Tentacles — 

 Thread-shooting Capsules — Petit Tor Pools — Thick-horned 

 Anemone — Description of the Species — Suggestions of Iden- 

 tity with A. coriacea — Its Habits — Beautiful Varieties — 

 Changes of Figure — Deep Tide-pool — Prawn — Its beauty of 

 Colour — Changes produced by Exposure to Light. 



The beach of white shingle at Oddicombe, whither 

 ladies so often repair to search for pebbles containing 

 fossil madrepores, washed up by the tide, is bounded 

 on the north by the promontory known as Petit Tor. 

 This is a bold bluff headland, almost entirely compo- 

 sed of compact limestone, which, on the side that 

 fronts the sea, has been extensively cut away by the 

 quarrymen, for building and ornamental purposes. 

 Its rounded summit is clothed with a turf of that 

 beautifully smooth and close texture, peculiar to 

 downs, which many a nobleman's lawn might envy ; 

 sheep love to graze on it, and may be seen perched 

 about the giddy heights, and upon the narrow winding 

 footpaths that their own steps have worn, nipping the 

 short fine grass in perfect security, where a false step 

 must send them down upon the stony beach below. 

 The always verdant and almost always blossoming 



