CHAPTER VII. 



Charm of the Sea-side — "Watchmg the receding Tide— the Lion 

 Rock — Approach of Evening — Its Accompaniments — The 

 Warty Cycloum — Harvey's Syrinx— Capstone Hill— Its Pro- 

 menade — Precipitous Walks — Noble Prospects — Sunset — 

 Bird's-eye View — The Welsh Coast — Flowers — The Summit 

 ■ — Inland Yiew — Seaward Rocks — Wildersmovith — A fatal 

 Accident — The Gemmed Anemone — Description — Habits — 

 Production of the Young — Sea Spider — Black Sand- worm — 

 A second Yisit to Watermouth — Plowers — A Crab at Home 

 ■ — A walk to Lee — Beautiful Yalley — Character of the Cove 

 ■ — Stone-turning — The Worm Pipe-fish — Its Form and 

 Colours — Manners in Captivity— Intelligence — Appearance 

 of Disease — Surgical Aid — Difficulties of Microscopical 

 Sketching. 



The sea-side is never dull : other places soon tire 

 us ; we cannot always he admiring scenery, though 

 ever so beautiful, and no body stands gazing into a 

 field, or on a hedgerow hank, though studded with 

 the most lovely flowers, by the half-hour together. 

 But we can and do stand watching the sea, and feel 

 reluctant to leave it : the changes of the tide, and the 

 ever rollino^, breakinsr, and retiring' waves, are so 

 much like the phenomena of life, that we look on 

 with an interest and expectation akin to that with 

 which we watch the proceedings of living beings. 

 Last night we sat long to gaze on the receding tide 

 from the promenade that looks out upon the little 



