THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. 
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but does it not seem to you, that there must surely 
be many a thing worth looking at earnestly, and 
thinking over earnestly, in a world like this, about 
the making of the least part whereof God has em- 
ployed ages and ages, further back than wisdom 
can guess or imagination picture, and upholds that 
least part every moment by laws and forces so com- 
plex and so wonderful, that science, when it tries 
to fathom them, can only learn how little it can 
learn? And does it not seem to you that six 
weeks’ rest, free from the cares of town business 
and the whirlwind of town pleasure, could not be 
better spent than in examining those wonders a 
little, instead of wandering up and down like the 
many, still wrapt up each in his little world of 
vanity and self-interest, unconscious of what and 
where they really are, as they gaze lazily around 
at earth and sea and sky, and have 
**No speculation in those eyes 
Which they do glare withal” ? 
Why not, then, try to discover a few of the Won- 
ders of the Shore? For wonders there are there 
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