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lioavo of tlio sea revealed a -watery bank with “ Mother Cary’s 
chickens ” playing on it. This bird he observed was very much 
like the Marten on the wing : “ it never swims, and goodness only 
knows where (or whether) it rests day or night.” On the 
28th May they were sixty miles nearer home than on the 24tln 
having drifted for three days in spite of jib and trysail; and then, 
when the storm did abate, for some time they had all sail set and no 
wind, with nothing to do but to catch crabs. At length the wind 
freshened; on Juno 1st they sighted the Spanish coast, and on the 
following day they cast anchor in Vigo bay. 
To his own astonishment, no less than his friends’, he never felt 
“at sea” once; and Mr. !Mc Andrew observed, that after a week’s 
ciuise ho already looked five years younger. A sea- voyage 
invariably gave him relief from his astlimatic troubles. 
It would, pcrliaps, bo tedious to describe the dredging operations?, 
but I may note a tew Natural History observations ho made 
inland. 
In writing homo ho said ; “ Every bank is a flower garden. 
IHany ot our old favourites are here, and many new to me. beds 
of goldon-ilowered Clirysanthemum and beds of blue buglo.s.s, three 
kinds of Cistus (Rockeist) white, yellow like ours, and yellow with 
a black eye. A yellow Oxalis grows on the walls, with Cotyledon 
and I cllitory white and yellow Stone-crop, and abundance of the 
annual Fern (Gymnogramma) of Guernsey. Many of our 
commonest flowers, like the narrow-leaved Vetch, appear to flower 
twice as largo and abundantly as with us. On the sunny banks 
wo saw the golden green (Guernsey) Lizard, as well as our nimble 
Lizard, and the whole air was vocal with grasshoppers. At first I 
thought it was an hundred larks singing all at once, but there 
are song birds too— blackcap and Chaffinch, and Robin at least. 
The Swift and Swallow are here too In the deep rock}’- 
lanes which lead from the high ground east of the town to the beach, 
we found a great many ferns, Osmunda regalis, Scolopendrium’ 
Lady fern, (Asplenium) Adiantum-nigrum and Trichomanes, 
brake, Lroad fern, and blechnum — but not our common Aspidium 
(Lastrea) felixmas. In the afternoon we walked along the beach 
westward, ami picked up shells and starfishes mostly finniliar 
English sorts, scallops and cockles, (Aporrhais) pes-pelicani, and 
the Chinaman’s hat ( Calyptra’uJ 
