IM GLAUCUS ; OE, 



marks ; and everywhere — except in those of the 

 highest level, where constant exposure to light dwarfs 

 the plant, and turns it of a dull nniber-hrown tint — 

 it is elegant in form and brilliant in colonr. The 

 expanding fan-shaped fronds, cut into segments, cut, 

 and cut again, make fine bushy tufts in a deep pool, 

 and every segment of every frond reflects a flush of 

 the most lustrous azure, like that of a tempered sword- 

 blade." — Gosses Devonshire Coast, pp. 187 — 189. 



And the sea bottom, also, has its zones, at different 

 depths, and its peculiar forms in peculiar spots, 

 affected by the currents and the nature of the ground, 

 the riches of which have to be seen, alas ! rather by 

 the imagination than the eye ; for such spoonfuls of 

 the treasure as the dredge brings up to us, come too 

 often rolled and battered, torn from their sites and 

 contracted by fear, mere hints to us of what the 

 populous reality below is like. And often, staijding 

 on the shore at low tide, has one longed to walk on 

 and in under the waves, as the water-ousel does in 

 the pools of the mountain burn, and see it all but for 

 a moment ; and a solemn beauty and meaning has 



