LETTER XII. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
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““TnHE sea, the sea, the deep blue sea,” what trea- 
sures are concealed within its waters: how many 
important lessons may be conveyed by the consider- 
ation of them, to the heart ! 
We have spoken of the industrious Pholas, that 
ingenious little miner, which readily excavates his 
subterraneous dormitory in the hardest substances ; 
of the Lepas, or Sea-acorn, which travels far, and yet 
never quits his home; of the Chiton, chased in ar- 
mour,—and how wonderfully they are adapted for their 
respective spheres of being. In looking at them, 
we have remembered that the same Almighty Being 
who directs the one, to form a secure abode,—who 
provides the dwelling of the other with a door, by 
