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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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But
to
descend
from
these
perhaps
too
daring
speculations,
there
is
another,
and
more
human,
source
of
interest
about
the
animal
who
is
writhing
feebly
in
the
glass
jar
of
salt
water;
for
he
is
one
of
the
many
curiosities
which
have
been
added
to
our
fauna
by
that
humble
hero
Mr.
Charles
Peach,
the
self-taught
naturalist,
of
whom,
as
we
walk
on
toward
the
rocks,
something
should
be
said,
or
rather
read;
for
Mr.
Chambers,
in
an
often-quoted
passage
from
his
Edinburgh
Journal,
which
I
must
have
the
pleasure
of
quoting
once
again,
has
told
the
story
better
than
we
can
tell
it:—
“But
who
is
that
little
intelligent-looking
man
in
a
faded
naval
uniform,
who
is
so
invariably
to
be
seen
in
a
particular
central
seat
in
this
section?
That,
gentle
reader,
is
perhaps
one
of
the
most
interesting
men
who
attend
the
British
Association.
He
is
only
a
private
in
the
mounted
guard
(preventive
service)
at
an
obscure
part
of
the
Cornwall
coast,
with
four
shillings
a
day,
and
a
wife
and
nine
children,
most
of
whose
education
he
has
himself
to
conduct.
He
never
tastes
the
luxuries
which
are
so
common
in
the
middle
ranks
of
life,
and
even
amongst
a
large
portion
of
the
working
classes.
He
has
to
mend
with
his
own
hands
every
sort
of
thing
that
can
break
or
wear
in
his
house.
Yet
Mr.
Peach
is
a
votary
of
Natural
History;
not
a
student
of
the
science
in
books,
for
he
cannot
afford
books;
but
an
investigator
by
sea
and
shore,
a
collector
of
Zoophytes
and
Echinodermata—
strange
creatures,
many
of
which
are
as
yet
hardly
known
to
man.
These
he
collects,
preserves,
and
describes;
and
every
year
does
he
come
up
to
the
British
Association
with
a
few
novelties
of
this
kind,
accompanied
by
illustrative
papers
and
drawings:
thus,
under
circumstances
the
very
opposite
of
those
of
such
men
as
Lord
Enniskillen,
adding,
in
like
manner,
to
the
general
stock
of
knowledge.
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