56 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches; so 
is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping 
innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the 
ships; there is that leviathan whom thou hast made to 
play therem. ‘These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest 
give them their meat in due season. That thou givest 
them they gather; thou openest thy hand and they are 
filled with good.” It is the remembrance of this goodness 
and of the happiness imparted to creatures that cannot be 
numbered for multitude, which gives an additional charm 
to the study of Zoophytology. If one frond is the habita- 
tion of a million of happy creatures, how great must be the 
amount of happiness which God is giving every moment 
to the utterly uncountable myriads of his creatures that in- 
habit the deep. 
By studying the nature and habits, and contemplating 
the happiness of these little denizens of the deep, we see 
the kind hand of God where our forefathers never thought 
of looking for it, and where it is probable we should never 
have seen it had it not been for the invention of the micro- 
scope. And this reminds us of the striking passage in 
which the lamented Dr. Chalmers compares the microscope 
and the telescope. ‘The one,” said he, “led me to see a 
