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■which produces strong currents in the surrounding 

 water, and suffices to carry away the hands themselves 

 if they he cut off from the mass. The walls of these 

 tuhes seem also to he mainly composed of filiferous 

 capsules set in a gelatinous matter ; they agree ex- 

 actly with those of the tentacles. 



A SUMMER MORNING WALK. 



Who does not know the delightful feehngs excited 

 by a walk in the early morning of a hot summer's 

 day ? The freshness, the coolness, the thinness of 

 the air, the unclouded clearness of the blue sky, the 

 warm glow that hangs all about on the horizon, the 

 silvery dew that lies upon the grass and herbage like 

 a veil of fine muslin, — all combine to produce a buoy- 

 ancy and exhilaration of spirits, peculiar to the time. 

 I set out on a walk to Lee on such a morning about 

 the end of July ; the sun was not yet up, but the long 

 Vermillion clouds that stretched across the glowing 

 sky in the north-east, told of his presence, like the 

 gorgeous standard that floats over the pavilion of 

 a king. 



The great black slugs were crawling on the wet 

 turf by the road-side ; creatures any thing but attract- 

 ive in themselves, and yet, associated as they are with 

 the mornings and evenings of the most charming 

 season of the vear, not onlv tolerated but even 

 welcomed. 



Before I had reached the end of the long steep lane 

 that terminates in Langiey Open, the sun was climb- 

 ing his steeper course, and pouring down such con- 



