336 SEPTEMBER. 



As this is a time at which many visit the 

 sea-coast, the following extract from " Drum- 

 mond's first steps to Botany/' a most excellent 

 and interesting little work, may be fitly in- 

 troduced. tf Perhaps no scene, or situation, is 

 so intensely gratifying to the naturalist as 

 the shore of the ocean. The productions of 

 the latter element are innumerable, and the 

 majesty of the mighty waters lends an interest 

 unknown to an inland landscape. The lone- 

 liness too of the sea-shore is much cheered by 

 the constant changes arising from the ebb and 

 flow of the tide, and the undulations of the 

 water's surface, sometimes rolling like moun- 

 tains, and again scarcely murmuring on the 

 beach. As you gather there 



Each flower of the rock and each gem of the billow, 

 you may feel with the poet, that there are joys 

 in solitude, and that there are pleasures to be 

 found in the investigation of nature of the most 

 powerful and pleasing influence. 



There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ; 

 There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; 

 There is society where none intrudes, 

 By the deep sea and music in its roar, 



