Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
164
Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
110
As
for
a
dredging
ground,
one
may
be
found,
I
suppose,
off
every
watering-place.
The
most
fertile
spots
are
in
rough
ground,
in
not
less
than
five
fathoms
water.
The
deeper
the
water,
the
rarer
and
more
interesting
will
the
animals
generally
be:
but
a
greater
depth
than
fifteen
fathoms
is
not
easily
reached
on
this
side
of
Plymouth;
and,
on
the
whole,
the
beginner
will
find
enough
in
seven
or
eight
fathoms
to
stock
an
aquarium
rivalling
any
of
those
in
the
“Tank-house”
at
the
Zoological
Gardens.
In
general,
the
south
coast
of
England,
to
the
eastward
of
Portland,
affords
bad
dredging
ground.
The
friable
cliffs,
of
comparatively
recent
formations,
keep
the
sea
shallow,
and
the
bottom
smooth
and
bare,
by
the
vast
deposits
of
sand
and
gravel.
Yet
round
the
Isle
of
Wight,
especially
at
the
back
of
the
Needles,
there
ought
to
be
fertile
spots;
and
Weymouth,
according
to
Mr.
Gosse
and
other
well-known
naturalists,
is
a
very
garden
of
Nereus.
Torbay,
as
may
well
be
supposed,
is
an
admirable
dredging
spot;
perhaps
its
two
best
points
are
round
the
isolated
Thatcher
and
Oare-rock,
and
from
the
mouth
of
Brixham
harbour
to
Berry
Head;
along
which
last
line,
for
perhaps
three
hundred
years,
the
decks
of
all
Brixham
trawlers
have
been
washed
down
ere
running
into
harbour,
and
the
sea-bottom
thus
stored
with
treasures
scraped
up
from
deeper
water
in
every
direction
for
miles
and
miles.
Hastings
is,
I
fear,
but
a
poor
spot
for
dredging.
Its
friable
cliffs
and
strong
tides
produce
a
changeable
and
barren
sea-floor.
Yet
the
immense
quantities
of
Flustra
thrown
up
after
a
storm
indicate
dredging
ground
at
no
great
distance
outside;
its
rocks,
uninteresting
as
they
are
compared
with
our
Devonians,
have
yielded
to
the
industry
and
science
of
M.
Tumanowicz
a
vast
number
of
sea-weeds
and
sponges.
Those
three
curious
polypes,
Valkeria
cuscuta
(Plate
I.
fig.
3),
Notamia
Bursaria,
and
Serialaria
Lendigera,
abound
within
tide-marks;
and
as
the
place
is
so
much
visited
by
Londoners,
it
may
be
worth
while
to
give
a
few
hints
as
to
what
might
be
done,
by
anyone
whose
curiosity
has
been
excited
by
the
salt-water
tanks
of
the
Zoological
Gardens
and
the
Crystal
Palace.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
