200 SEASIDE DIVINITY. 



into a symmetrical structure as compact and solid 

 as marble. Myriads of them thus labouring 

 without a moment's intermission day and night 

 and year after year, are able to transform the 

 dissolved lime contained in the waters of the deep 

 into solid mountains on which the utmost force of 

 the billows is spent in vain, and which perhaps, in 

 some future geological epoch, will form the foun- 

 dations of new continents and new islands, in 

 which all the richest charms of natural scenery 

 will be exhibited, and where future cities may 

 arise inhabited by man in his highest condition of 

 civilisation. 



