SEA-SIDE STUDIES. 



CHAPTER I. 



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TANKS -rDE.VI„™-G , AKIMALS - BOOKS KECESSAET FOE THE 

 ' B^-^T-BBUOHXS OE THE MZCEOSCOPE-POPUEAE EEEOHS 

 RESPECTING THE MICEOSCOPE-EZPEEIMEKT. 



A FEW warn sunny days in April 1856, T^hich flew 

 over our heads Uke swallows twittering of the coming 

 summer, stirred in my bosom iiTesistible lono-in.s to 

 quit the moil and turmoil of metropolitan crowds for 

 the bright and breezy coast. As I hurried through the 

 noisy London streets, or sauntered through the com- 

 paratiyely quiet lanes of Richmond and Twickenham 

 and looked at the summerlike sky above, I began to 

 understand the migration of birds, and felt something 

 ot what they must feel, when certain dim imperious 

 influences urge them to quit their homes, and traverse 

 many a weary league of foam, in search of the resting. 



