rather disagreeable odour and black smoke ; but 

 if we blow out the flame, there then arises a white 

 vapour, which exhales a pleasant aromatic scent. 



To this Milton refers when he says in Samson 

 Agonistes 



1 An amber scent 01 odorous perfume 

 Her harbinger.' 



As may be gathered from numerous references 

 in our old poets, the aroma of amber was used in 

 the Elizabethan age to give gusto to foods and wines 

 as well as to perfume garments. 



ROCKS AND STONES 



It has always been a source of interest to me to 

 observe the various kinds of stones I meet with in a 

 morning's ramble. Living, as I do, where quartzite 

 pebbles abound, I am always being reminded that the 

 sea once covered this place, although it now stands 

 between 400 and 500 feet above it, and that it 

 was by the sea's action that these stones were rolled 

 backwards and forwards, until all their angles were 

 smoothed away. In fact, they are exactly such as 

 we may find on any sea beach at the present day. 



4 Where rolls the deep, there grew the tree ; 

 O earth, what changes hast thou seen ? 

 There, where the long street roars, hath been 

 The silence of the central sea.' 



Common flints out of a chalk-pit are usually dark 

 grey or black within the outer white crust ; but our 

 quartzite flints are beautifully stained, banded, and 

 veined, and partake of the nature of agate and 



