CHAPTER XI. 



Hillsborough — Meaning of its Name — Its Grandeur — Its Flowers 

 — Commanding Prospects — View Westward — Inland — East- 

 ward — Seaward — Formation of a Beach — A Rock-slip— An- 

 thea — Its Tentacles retractile — Their Structure — Thread- 

 Capsules — A Summer Morning Walk — Autumnal Flowers — 

 Langley Open — The Hangman — Curious Legend — Coast 

 Scenery — Lee — A Ship's Travels —Solitude — Caves — Sponges 

 — The Hispid Flustra — Its Appearance and Structure — 

 Expansion of its Bells — Ciliary Action — A miniature Whirl- 

 pool — Visit to Braunton Cam Top — Tragical Legend — 



Score Valley — Squirrels — Trentistowe — AVhitc Bindweed — 

 Oak Hedges — Reaping — Braunton — Curious monumental 

 Inscription — Braunton Burrows — Sea-side Rocks — Marine 

 Animals — Rare Plants on the Cliflfs — Snails — Botany of the 

 Burrows — Insects — Shells — The Feather Plumularia — Its 

 Egg- Vesicles — Young Polypes — Their Development from 

 Planules — Structure of the Polj-pe. 



The most remarkable object in this neighbourhood 

 is the noble mountain-mass that forms the eastern 

 headland of the harbour of Ilfracombe. Its name is 

 now spelled and pronounced Hillsborough, but there 

 can be little doubt that the essential part of this word 

 is cognate with Hele, the village that lies at the foot 

 of the hill. The element " borough" or " burrow" is 

 commonly found hereabouts in the names of elevated 

 rounded hills, especially such as are tenanted by rab- 



