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As pleased the ear of God ! Original, 



Unmarr'd, unfaded work of Deity, 



From age to age enduring and unchanged, 



Majestical, inimitable, vast. 

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Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, 



Heard'st none, to none did honour but to God, 



Thy Maker, only worthy to receive 



Thy great obeisance !" — Pollok. 



Genus XIX. GOEGONIA, Linnc^us. 



Gen. Char. Polype-mass rooted, arborescent, consisting of a 

 central axis, barked with a polypiferous crust ; the axis horny, 

 continuous and flexible, branched in coequality with the polype- 

 mass ; the crust, when recent, soft and fleshy, when dried, porous 

 and friable ; the orifices of the polype-cells more or less protube- 

 rant. — Dr. Johnston. 



1. GoRGOXiA VERRUCOSA, Sea-fem, or Sea-fan, Cole. 

 (Plate XII. fig. 42.) 



Hab. Deep water. Mount^s Bay, Cornwall, Mr. Batten ; 

 abundant on the south coast. Couch ; plentiful, Devon- 

 shire, Montague ; Exmoutli, Kev. T. Hincks. Dr. Fleming 

 states that it was obtained in Scotland by Sowerby. 



This has a shrubby appearance, being above a foot in 

 height, and sixteen or seventeen inches in breadth. It has 

 by some been called " Sea-heath." It is fixed to rocks by 



