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you can walk from here to Dover when the tide is out, you may 

 find many of those curious excavations known as "pot-holes." 

 They deserve a more aesthetic title, for some are very beautiful. 

 They are worked out by the combined action of the waves and the 

 pebbles — often quite circular, and of all depths from an inch to a 

 foot, the sides clothed with delicate seaweeds, each forming a 

 natural aquarium, in which, after the retreat of the tide you may 

 often find denizens of the sea unwillingly detained. 



Just one word in conclusion to the botanist. Only one word 

 because my friend Mr. Walton is more competent to speak upon it 

 than I am, and will, I am sure, as you wander about, be ready 

 with any information you may need. With him you will be able to 

 find the Samphire, the Sea Lavender, possibly (I wont say probably) 

 the Sea-Heath, the Madder, with its prickly foliage, the Beet, the 

 Nottingham Catchfly, and many of the Leguminosoe. 



To the Entomologist it will be sufficient to say that I have here 

 taken D. albimacula hovering in the darkening twilight over the 

 Silene, and many a larva of chrysidiformis from the roots of the 

 docks. 



Tea was provided at five o'clock, and the party were taken home 

 again by a train calling for them at 7.30. 



