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FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. 



sea-wracks are from my beautiful pink sea-weeds !" 

 said Mary. 



" Your pretty specimens," said her father, " be- 

 long to a tribe called KOSE-TANGLES, which are 

 most of them rose-coloured or purple. Some of 

 the ocean caves are quite lined with dark-red 

 weeds of this description. Rose-tangles are not 

 only pretty, but useful ; a nourishing jelly is made 



from one of them, improperly called Carrageen 

 moss ; a substitute for tobacco is found in another, 

 called dulse, which is washed in fresh water, dried 



