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will discover them to us. We shall even thus find 
enough to occupy (if we choose) our lifetime. For 
we must recollect that this hasty sketch has hardly 
touched on that vegetable water-world, which is as 
wonderful and as various as the animal one. A 
hint or two of the beauty of the sea-weeds 
has been given; but space has allowed no more. 
Yet we might have spent our time with almost as 
much interest and profit, had we neglected utterly 
the animals which we have found, and devoted 
our attention exclusively to the flora of the rocks. 
Sea-weeds are no mere playthings for children; 
and to buy at a shop some thirty pretty kinds, 
pasted on paper, with long names (probably mis- 
spelt) written under each, is not by any means to 
possess a collection of them. Putting aside the 
number and the obscurity of their species, the 
questions which arise in studying their growth, re- 
production, and organic chemistry are of the very 
deepest and most important in the whole rarige of 
science ; and it will need but a little study of such 
a book as Harvey’s “ Algze,” to show the wise man 
