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ining the shores. Large tracts of the rocks were 

 exposed every day for a week, which I had never be- 

 fore been able to approach, and my searcliings were 

 rewarded with several interesting novelties. Among 

 these was the charming little Corynactis Allmanni. 

 (Plate YIII.) 



If the visitor, standing at the mouth of either of 

 the Tunnels, or at the margin of the Ladies' Bathing 

 Pool, look out seaward, he will see that the rocks, 

 which are low for some distance from the beach, rise 

 at length into enormous angular masses, the strata of 

 which project towards the sky in a diagonal direction 

 from the shore. One of these masses lying far 

 away to the right, is the Lion Eock, so conspicuous 

 and remarkable an object in the view from Wilders- 

 mouth, and from the field-path leading to Hele, when 

 the tide is pretty well in. The next is separated from 

 this by a wide space of clear water ; and is seen w^hen 

 you come close to it to be not a single solid rock, but 

 rather a collection of masses, divided by chasms and 

 fissures, with deep but narrow inlets running between 

 them, strewn with boulders and gravel. It was down 

 at the water's edge in one of these inlets, as I was in- 

 tently examining the beetling sides of the lofty rock, 

 that I looked into a shallow cavity into which the tide 

 w^as washing. The rock is here more solid than usual, 

 and the surface, bathed by the sea, has none of that 

 ragged friable appearance that so characterises its ex- 

 posed parts. The cavities and projections, though of 

 various irregular forms, are nearly as smooth as if 

 wrought by the sculptor's chisel. They are almost 

 quite free from sea-weeds, at least where the outline is 



