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edges of the valves. Should extraneous matter be admitted 
at any time, it adheres to the cords, and is rolled from one 
to another, till it reaches a sort of triangular web, from 
which it is cast into the current of the outgoing water and 
carried to the outside beyond the reach of returning. 
Seeing, we adore ; and adoring, praise the inscrutable 
wisdom of Thy works, 0 God. 
CHAPTER V. 
ON THE CLOCH SHORE. 
P)IERCINGr the Northern shore of our lovely firth at 
— Helensburgh, and following up the deeply-indented 
line round the seven intervening lochs from that point to 
the Kerry coast on Loch Fyne, the traveller beholds as 
magnificent a panoramic view of Nature's wildest grandeur 
as any same stretch of miles in Europe can boast of. 
Crossing over again to the opposite shore, beginning with 
Kempoch Point, Gourock, we have, on the contrary, almost 
an unbroken hee-line of wood, clothed and cultivated heights, 
and pasture land stretching far down into the south of 
Scotland. The Northern shore has more attractions to the 
shellfish-seeker, having the requisite rough and smooth 
shores in greater abundance for the propagation of all kinds 
of specimens; but the South shore, which we have chosen 
for this occasion, has sufficient for our present purpose. 
Sauntering through Kempoch or Western Gourock, immedi- 
ately above the sea line, we soon reach the beautiful villas 
