The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 1906, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 1906, Vol. 17

Lundy Island, situated off the north coast of Devon, is distant about fourteen miles from Hartland Point, and thirty from the Welsh coast. It is an isolated rock of granite, some 341 miles long by half a mile broad, rising more than 400 ft. Directly from the sea. It is almost treeless, the vegetation consisting chiefly of heather, grass, bramble and bracken, usually the most unproductive ground for Ooleoptem. There are a few boggy places, which, however, were nearly dried up in August, and several ponds of clear water in the rock which harboured a good number of water beetles. Exposed as the island is to the full force of the Atlantic Ocean one must expect a rough passage out to it, and consider himself lucky if he can leave on the day appointed. There is only one landing place, a little bay well sheltered from the prevailing sw. Winds, but fully exposed to the east, so that a change of wind may mean a delay of many days in getting off. Indeed there are tales of excursionists being detained even for weeks!

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