THE NORTH SEA 



breath of the North Sea, rude, but kindly, 

 meets me, blowing coolness and energy 

 through every channel of body and mind. " I 

 have never known what freshness was since I 

 left," said one who spent a month here, and was 

 hastening back again. 



There is no resort, not the shadow of woods, or 

 the loneliness of mountain-tops, more delightful 

 to me than the belt between the tide-marks, flushed 

 twice a day by racing waves. Cool olive blades of 

 the larger seaweeds float on the surface of rocky 

 basins, richly inlaid with the pink of coming 

 coralline ; while bright and dark greens, and reds, 

 form miniature forests in the shallower pools. 



Every here and there, anemones peep out from 

 amid the abundant leafage. Fancy, running riot 

 among the varieties, as if in search of sufficiently 



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