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it than all my words ; tliough still we should be constrained 

 to say, ^ Wlio can paint like Nature ?' This brief quotation 

 from the Poet of the Seasons suggests to us an answer to 

 those 'n'ho may be ready to say, ^ What trifling ! why such 

 a fuss about a sea-slug?' If God painted it, should not 

 we admire it, and adore him by whom it was arrayed in 

 so much beauty ? He made all things for- his own glory ; 

 and if this tiny mollusc, like a floating emerald, has not be- 

 fore attracted the gaze of any eye in Scotland, this is a rea- 

 son why we should admire it the more when seen, and give 

 glory to Him who deigned to adorn it. Millions of them 

 have lived and died unnoticed by man ; but as they enjoyed 

 all the happiness of which they were susceptible, they were 

 not created in vain." 



