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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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No
wonder
that
such
a
spot
as
Torquay,
with
its
delicious
Italian
climate,
and
endless
variety
of
rich
woodland,
flowery
lawn,
fantastic
rock-cavern,
and
broad
bright
tide-sand,
sheltered
from
every
wind
of
heaven
except
the
soft
south-east,
should
have
become
a
favourite
haunt,
not
only
for
invalids,
but
for
naturalists.
Indeed,
it
may
well
claim
the
honour
of
being
the
original
home
of
marine
zoology
and
botany
in
England,
as
the
Firth
of
Forth,
under
the
auspices
of
Sir
J.
G.
Dalyell,
has
been
for
Scotland.
For
here
worked
Montagu,
Turton,
and
Mrs.
Griffith,
to
whose
extraordinary
powers
of
research
English
marine
botany
almost
owes
its
existence,
and
who
survived
to
an
age
long
beyond
the
natural
term
of
man,
to
see,
in
her
cheerful
and
honoured
old
age,
that
knowledge
become
popular
and
general
which
she
pursued
for
many
a
year
unassisted
and
alone.
Here,
too,
the
scientific
succession
is
still
maintained
by
Mr.
Pengelly
and
Mr.
Gosse,
the
latter
of
whom
by
his
delightful
and,
happily,
well-known
books
has
done
more
for
the
study
of
marine
zoology
than
any
other
living
man.
Torbay,
moreover,
from
the
variety
of
its
rocks,
aspects,
and
sea-floors,
where
limestones
alternate
with
traps,
and
traps
with
slates,
while
at
the
valley-mouth
the
soft
sandstones
and
hard
conglomerates
of
the
new
red
series
slope
down
into
the
tepid
and
shallow
waves,
affords
an
abundance
and
variety
of
animal
and
vegetable
life,
unequalled,
perhaps,
in
any
other
part
of
Great
Britain.
It
cannot
boast,
certainly,
of
those
strange
deep-sea
forms
which
Messrs.
Alder,
Goodsir,
and
Laskey
dredge
among
the
lochs
of
the
western
Highlands,
and
the
sub-marine
mountain
glens
of
the
Zetland
sea;
but
it
has
its
own
varieties,
its
own
ever-fresh
novelties:
and
in
spite
of
all
the
research
which
has
been
lavished
on
its
shores,
a
naturalist
cannot,
I
suspect,
work
there
for
a
winter
without
discovering
forms
new
to
science,
or
meeting
with
curiosities
which
have
escaped
all
observers,
since
the
lynx
eye
of
Montagu
espied
them
full
fifty
years
ago.
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