132 Beautiful Shells. 
with the breath of life, and then to be embedded in 
the rock as everlasting characters by which the 
unborn generations of men might read in history 
of those changes, and of the providential dealings 
of God with his creatures. Of these Ammonites, 
and other fossil shells, much more will have to be 
said in our proposed geological volume; the poem 
which follows will very appropriately conclude the 
above remarks, and our present little work on 

NAUTILUS. AMMONITE, 
shells—beautiful, wonderful shells! useful, orna- 
mental, instructive! The subject is one which we 
would earnestly invite our young readers to study: 
it is but here introduced; we have picked up a few, 
very few, of the wonders and beauties of con- 
chology, and presented them to their notice in the 
hope that they may be induced to desire a more 
intimate acquaintance with this branch of natural 
