Life—Conversation—Musical Fish—Pleasures and Excitements—Do Fish sleep? CHAPTER XVI. MONSTERS OF THE DEEP. Mark Twain on Whales—A New Version of an Old Story—Whale as 178 Food—Whaling in 1670—The Great Mammal’s Enemy the “Killer”—The Animal’s Home—The so‐called Fisheries—The Sperm Whale—Spermaceti—The Chase—The Capture—A Mythical Monster—The Great Sea Serpent—Yarns from Norway—An Archdeacon’s Testimony—Stories from America—From Greenland—Mahone Bay—A Tropical Sea Serpent—What is the Animal?—Seen on a Voyage to India—Off the Coast of Africa—Other Accounts—Professor Owen on the Subject—Other Theories CHAPTER XVII. BY THE SEA‐SHORE. English Appreciation of the Sea‐side—Its Variety and 190 Interest—Heavy Weather—The Green Waves—On the Cliffs—The Sea from there—Madame de Gasparin’s Reveries—Description of a Tempest—The Voice of God—Calm—A Great Medusa off the Coast—Night on the Sea—Boating Excursion—In a Cavern—Colonies of Sea‐anemones—Rock Pools—Southey’s Description—Treasures for the Aquarium—A Rat Story—Rapid Influx of Tide and its Dangers—Melancholy Fate of a Family—Life under Water CHAPTER XVIII. BY THE SEA‐SHORE (_continued_). A Submerged Forest—Grandeur of Devonshire Cliffs—Castellated 199 Walls—A Natural Palace—Collection of Sea‐weeds—The Title a Miserable Misnomer—The Bladder Wrack—Practical Uses—The Harvest‐ time for Collectors—The Huge Laminaria—Good for Knife‐ handles—Marine Rope—The Red‐Seeded Group—Munchausen’s Gin Tree Beaten—The Coralline a Vegetable—Beautiful Varieties—Irish Moss—The Green Seeds—Hints on Preserving Sea‐weeds—The Boring Pholas—How they Drill—Sometimes through each other—The Spinous Cockle—The “Red‐noses”—Hundreds of Peasantry Saved from Starvation—“Rubbish,” and the difficulty of obtaining it—Results of a Basketful—The Contents of a Shrimper’s Net—Miniature Fish of the Shore CHAPTER XIX. SKETCHES OF OUR COASTS—CORNWALL. The Land’s End—Cornwall and her Contributions to the Navy—The 207 Great Botallack Mine—Curious Sight Outwardly—Plugging Out the Atlantic Ocean—The Roar of the Sea Heard Inside—In a Storm—The Miner’s Fears—The Loggan Stone—A Foolish Lieutenant and his Little Joke—The Penalty—The once‐feared Wolf Rock—Revolving Lights—Are they Advantageous to the Mariner?—Smuggling in Cornwall—A Coastguardsman Smuggler—Landing 150 Kegs under the Noses of the Officers—A Cornish Fishing‐town—Looe, the Ancient—The Old Bridge—Beauty of the Place from a Distance—Closer Inspection—Picturesque Streets—The Inhabitants—Looe Island and the Rats—A Novel Mode of Extirpation—The Poor of Cornwall Better Off than Elsewhere—Mines and Fisheries—Working on “Tribute”—Profits of the Pilchard Season—Cornish Hospitality and Gratitude CHAPTER XX. SKETCHES OF OUR COASTS—CORNWALL (_continued_). Wilkie Collins’s Experiences as a Pedestrian—Taken for “Mapper,” 218 “Trodger,” and Hawker—An Exciting Wreck at Penzance—The Life‐line sent out—An Obstinate Captain—A Brave Coastguardsman—Five