CHAPTER YI. 

 COBAL-THE BOCK BUILDEB8. 



|ll0 art can imitate the delicate tracery, the rich color, 

 ■^[^ and the singular forms that coral assumes. It has been 

 called by some, the '* Queen of the Ocean," and no term 

 could be more appropriate. A celebrated naturalist, on 

 viewing the coral-beds of the Red Sea, exclaimed, '* Where 



