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anon with proud delight to add their little 

 treasure to their parents' stock, and of happy 

 friendly evenings spent over the microscope and 

 the vase, in examining, arranging, preserving, 

 notin"' down in the diary the wonders and the 

 labors of the happy, busy day. No ; such 

 short glimpses of the water-world as our present 

 appliances afford us are full enough of pleasure ; 

 and we will not envy Glaucus ; we will not even 

 be over-anxious for the success of his only mod- 

 em imitator, the French naturalist who is report- 

 ed to have. just fitted himself with a water-proof 

 dress and breathing apparatus, in order to walk 

 the bottom of the Mediterranean, and see for 

 himself how the world goes on at the fifty-fathom 

 line. We will be content with dredging next 

 year as we dredged this ; and in the mean while 

 let Mr. Gosse tell us some of the pleasures of 

 that little-known amusement : — 



" Tlic dredge is a strong bag witli an iron 

 frame around the mouth, which is drawn over 

 the sca-boltora by a rope. The rudest form of 

 the instrument is tliat used for procuring oysters. 

 The bag is generally made of iron rings linked 

 together, and one of the longer sides of the frame 

 is turned up to make a scraping-lip. 



