. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. broken shells, afew dead and damaged crabs, a collapsedjelly-fish, and masses of mutilated seaweedswhose glory has been dimmed by constantrolling in the surf. What they really need is a littlepractical advice where to look and what tolook for. Much, of course, depends on thelocality chosen. The ideal bathing-place,where the sands are so flat and firm that youcan walk out in the water for a quarter of amile without wetting your chin, will yieldcomparativelj nothing to the naturalist,except by dredging from a boat far out. Ify
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. broken shells, afew dead and damaged crabs, a collapsedjelly-fish, and masses of mutilated seaweedswhose glory has been dimmed by constantrolling in the surf. What they really need is a littlepractical advice where to look and what tolook for. Much, of course, depends on thelocality chosen. The ideal bathing-place,where the sands are so flat and firm that youcan walk out in the water for a quarter of amile without wetting your chin, will yieldcomparativelj nothing to the naturalist,except by dredging from a boat far out. Ifyou were asking for the best advice I could give you, I should say, take a ticket for Truro or Falmouth, on the Great WesternBailway, and make your way to one of the fishing villages which abound along thesouth coast, often hidden away in some rocky cove. Here you will find moderate expansesof sand alternating with low reefs, the feet of the slaty rocks being fissured and fretted,and hollowed into caves and basins which are teeming with life; but so well do most 61. THE SQUAT is really a crab; it is little known, but can be foundon our shores by those who know where to look for it. 62 Animal Life
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