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surface of the earth.' * The same author observes that 

 in some parts of the Greenland Seas, the minute 

 species of Medusoe abound to such an extent that 

 they give a visible tinge to the colour of the waves 

 for hundreds of miles. The total number of these 

 animals dispersed over that space, surpasses the utmost 

 stretch of the imagination. In these situations a 

 cubic foot of water taken indiscriminately, was found 

 by Mr. Scoresby, to contain above 100,000 of these 

 diminutive Medusce.'* 



But to return from these marvellous discoveries of 

 modern times, it is worthy of remark that Christ 

 chose several of his Apostles from the humble rank of 

 fishermen, to denote perhaps, not so much the necessity 

 of humility in his followers, as to intimate that the pro- 

 vince of their labours, though apparently barren and 

 dangerous, was not so in reality, but abundantly stocked 

 with every spiritual product, and containing a richer 

 harvest of the heirs of the kingdom of heaven than 

 any former dispensation ; a harvest which wej may 

 reasonably believe, only awaits the throwing forth of 

 the gospel-net more extensively and faithfully by the 



* Dr. Roget's Bridgewater Treatise, vol. 1. p. 13, and 194. 



