134 REMINISCENCES OF 



the creation in spite of all his science and his strength 

 they are often individually dressed in beauty before which 

 the lily would fade, and the rose hide its blushes; and, 

 collectively, they produce some of the most sublime phe- 

 nomena, which have even astonished the philosopher, 

 building up islands in the midst of the deep, or, in mimic 

 sportiveness, alarming the mariner with the appearance 

 of unreal shoals, and wakening the lightning of the wa- 

 ters to increase the brilliancy of moonlight, or to render 

 more terrific the gloom of the midnight tempest. 



This picture may appear too glowing to many, but in 

 my next I will endeavour to establish its correctness. 



C. 



