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which shall grow food, perhaps in some future state 
of our planet, for generations yet unborn. 
Siig ; 
But to return to the water-world, and to dred 
which of all sea-side pursuits is perhaps the most 
pleasant, combining as it does fine weather sailing 
with thé discovery of new objects, to which, after all, 
the waifs and strays of the beach, whether “ flotsom, 
jetsom, or lagand,’ as the old Admiralty laws define 
them, are few and poor. I say particularly fine 
weather sailing ; for a swell, which makes the dredge 
leap along the bottom, instead of scraping steadily, is 
as fatal to sport as it is to some people’s comfort. 
But dredging, if you use-a pleasure boat and the 
small naturalist’s dredge, is an amusement in which 
ladies, if they will, may share, and which will in- 
crease, and not interfere with, the amusements of a 
water-party. 
The naturalist’s dredge, of which Mr. Gosse’s 
“ Aquarium” gives a detailed account, should differ 
from the common oyster dredge in being smaller; 
certainly not more than four feet across the mouth ; 
and instead of having but one iron scraping-lip like 
