116 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



ever the earth and the world was made, He was God 

 from everlasting, the same yesterday, to-day, and for 

 ever. Conceive a Crystal Palace, (for mere difference 

 in size, as both the naturalist and the metaphysician 

 know, has nothing to do with the wonder,) whereof 

 each separate joist, guxler, and pane gTows continually 

 without altering the shape of the whole ; and you 

 have conceived only one of the miracles embodied in 

 that little sea-egg, which the Divine Word has, as it 

 were, to justify to man His own immutability, fur- 

 nished with a shell capable of enduring fossil for 

 countless ages, that we may confess Him to have 

 been as great when first His Spirit brooded on the 

 deej), as He is now, and will be through all worlds to 

 come. 



But we must make haste ; for the tide is rising 

 fast, and our stone will be restored to its eleven 

 hours' bath, long before we have talked over half the 

 wonders which it holds. Look though, ere you 

 retreat, at one or two more. 



What is that little brown fellow whom you have 

 just taken off the rock to which he adhered so stoutly 



