CORNISH VAEIETY OF A. MARTNUM. 95 
parsons were good." And so my friend patronised 
first one and then the other, and doubtless thought 
himself very good too. Thus conversing, we came 
back to my companions, whom I left looking too 
sentimental for aught but lotus-eating, but whom 
I found devouring cake and sandwiches with the 
rapidity and destructiveness of locusts. The 
copper boy sat down on a rock and devoured too, 
giving to the picture a richer tone of colouring 
than even blue sky or white gulls could produce. 
I never found the true Cornish variety of 
marinum excepting at Cape Cornwall. In cultiva- 
tion, it loses much of its individual character. 
It diminishes in length and in the narrowness of 
the pinnae, but it still preserves a certain pe- 
culiarity of outline sufficient to separate it from 
the common marinum. 
