XI. 

 NOVEMBER 



IF we could roam at pleasure over the bottom of the 

 sea, with the privilege of using all our senses as effec- 

 tually and as comfortably as in the air, we should 

 doubtless see some wonderful things. We might not, 

 indeed, find all the useful and ornamental articles that 

 drowning Clarence saw in his dream, but doubtless we 

 might substitute for them things that he never dreamed 

 of, things that the eye of man was not as yet cultivated 

 to see. What opportunities for enlarging the bounds of 

 science are possessed by the engineers that have been 

 working many hours a day, for years past, at the great 

 Breakwater in that prolific field of marine life, Wey- 

 niouth Bay ! working in a capacious diving-bell at the 

 bottom of the sea. But there are many reasons why 

 we can expect nothing in the way of natural history 

 from them. Perhaps not one of them has ever been 

 taught to think upon any of the strange forms that 

 might occur, which do not commonly minister to the 



