CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



A Drag on SmaUmouth Sands — ^The Abergavenny — Chalk Figure 

 of King George — Varieties of Ground — ^The Little Weever— 

 Flat-fishes— The Thomhack— The Painted Eay— The Bor- 

 dered Kay — ^The Angel — The Gemmed Sea-slug — Forest- 

 bearing Crabs — Shrimps — Garret Windows — ^sop-prawns — 

 Cranch's ^sop — White's .<5Esop — The Scarlet-lined iEsop — 

 The Plumose Anemone— Its Beauty and Size — Variation in 

 Colour — The Disk — Its Sociality— Its Locomotion — Runcina 

 — The Fiddler Crab — His natatory Powers — A "striking" 

 Species — His grim Habits — Ferocity — Indiscriminate Greedi- 

 ness — Tit for Tat — An odd Fish — Use of the Lamm^A 

 Fisherman's '■ Rubbish" — Plate Armour — A fine Beard — Its 

 probable Use — The Nothe Ledges — ^Various Sea-weeds — 

 Phyllophora — Codium — Grifiithsia — Rivularia. 184—203 



CHAPTER IX. 

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A Meditation — The Spiritual Use of Natural History — Extremes 

 of Opinion — Scriptural Warrant for the Study — Its Limits — 

 Three inspired Modes of Treatment — I. Direct Testimony to 

 God — Founded on our Ignorance — On our Knowledge — 

 Various Attributes of God discoverable — Responsibilities — 

 Cain's Offering — 11. Moral Lessons by Examjiles — III. Spi- 

 ritual Parallelisms — Similes — Types — Synjbols — Allegories — 

 God's Message of G?ace. 204 — 215 



CHAPTER X. 



Autumnal Gales — Lucernaria — Mode of finding it — Analogy with 

 Medusa — tiescriptiou — Habit of Bell Lucernaria— Last Look 



at Weymouth — London Studies — The Spinous Cockles 



Their gymnastic Feats — Fine Appearance of the Foot — Open- 

 heartedness — The Siphons and their Use — Strange Creatures 



in the Sea — The Rough Syrinx — Value of a Bit of Stone 



The Terebella— Ancient Masonry — Crawling and Swimijaing 



Feats — The Gold-comb — Its Tube — Its Combs — Their Use 



Its"Mode of Burrowing — ^Respiration — Structure of the Tail 



The Gills — The Spears — Use of these Organs — Self-abolition 

 —A Faculty of Eohinoderms— Brittle-stars— Cross-fish— 



