7 tac Naturalist se ‘S@A-SIDE 
Written and Illustrated with Photographs by Epwarp Strep, F.L.S. 
Telling tourists to the seaside how and where to look for Natural History objects by the shore. 
MONG the thousands who at this period | i 
“go down to the sea” from the inland 
towns, there are many who remember some- 
thing they have read of the wonders of the 
shore, and they think they will turn their 
holiday to profit by finding out what they 
can of these wonders. Very often they are 
greatly disappointed, and decide that what 
they have read was the work of an imaginative 
writer, for their rambles along the sands 
yield them little more than broken shells, a 
few dead and damaged crabs, a collapsed 
jelly-fish, and masses of mutilated seaweeds 
whose glory has been dimmed by constant 
rolling in the surf. 
What they really need is a little 
practical advice where to look and what to 
look for. Much, of course, depends on the 
locality chosen. The ideal bathing-place, 
where the sands are so flat and firm that you 
can walk out in the water for a quarter of a 
mile without wetting your chin, will yield © ~~ i reser 
: . THE SQUAT LOBSTER. 
comparatively nothing to the naturalist, This is really a crab; it is little known, but can be found 
except by dredging from a boat far out. If on our shores by those who know where to look for it. 
you were asking for the best advice I could 
give you, I should say, take a ticket for Truro or Falmouth, on the Great Western 
Railway, and make your way to one of the fishing villages which abound along the 
south coast, often hidden away in some rocky cove. Here you will find moderate expanses 
of sand alternating with low reefs, the feet of the slaty rocks being fissured and fretted, 
and hollowed into caves and basins which are teeming with life; but so well do most 
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