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possibility of quiet is much increased. If a taste for study 

 and natural observation have been duly cultivated there 

 need be no dulness in the longer evenings, nor in the 

 possible occurrence of a rainy day. For the same cost rooms 

 affording double the comfort of those obtainable in August 

 may often be had. For young and delicate children autumn 

 at the sea is especially to be recommended. As a rule, no one 

 catches cold at the seaside, and a condition of hardihood 

 may be gained by exposure to October breezes which the 

 sultry days of August are powerless to confer. Nor is it to 

 be forgotten that October comes nearer to November and 

 December, with their cold and damp, and that there is less 

 risk that what has been gained in the holiday may be, to a 

 large extent, lost before the time of trial comes. 



We need perhaps say nothing as to advantages of early 

 rising at the seaside. Great as these are everywhere, they 

 are multiplied at the sea, especially during the hot and fashion- 

 able months. Those who go in October may indulge an 

 hour longer, if so inclined, but those who are there in August 

 should rise with the sun. The sands are then untrodden, the 

 breezes are refreshing, and all Nature is delightful. To the 

 shell-collector it is essential to be first on the shore, and very 

 often the very early morning is by far the best time to meet 

 the fishermen returning in their boats and thus secure some of 

 their treasures. It is also the best time for getting an appetite 

 for breakfast. 



Our notes of various seaside resorts will have come, we 

 fear, rather too late for the guidance of a large majority this 

 season. They may, however, be found interesting to those 

 who are already located at one or other of the places alluded 

 to. They may also serve useful purposes for next year, and 

 one of the least alloyed pleasures of the last week of a holiday 

 is the discussion of the place where the next shall be spent. 

 We hope, if permitted, greatly to extend our list of places 



