P E E P A C E. 



What say you to a ramble among tlie fairy rock 

 pools, weed-covered ledges, and gem-decked par- 

 terres bordering tlie gardens of the sea ? Where 

 ocean plants and flowrets of a thousand hues and 

 tints wave their trailing tendrils, and unfold their 

 feathery fronds, in the crystal waters, and to an 

 expedition to far-off lands and tropic islands 

 raised from the sea's depths by the mighty 

 labours of the tiny coral insect ; where the tough 

 roots of the graceful, fern-like imlms, are ever 

 bathed by the snow-white foam, and where the 

 fresh sea breeze, sings merrily through the grove, 

 to the deep- toned thunder of the surf as it breaks 

 on the wide-stretching reef, and is scattered in 

 a rainbow shower far within the still lagunes 



