Excursion to Herm. 



having been divided into compartments to suit the convenience 

 of the farmers. 



About an hour later, there was a general gathering at the 

 pier, the tide having risen high enough to enable the steamer to 

 lie alongside. A passing shower made the houses around a 

 welcome shelter while waiting for the boat, which called on 

 her return passage from Serk. Then a pleasant run of twenty 

 minutes brought us once more to the "White Eock from a most 

 pleasant excursion, which, notwithstanding the most earnest 

 endeavours, had not half exhausted the points of interest 

 to be discovered in Herm. 



