MABINE BOTANY. 5 



often fastened, by making four slits in the page, and insert- 

 ing each corner. This is by far the best plan, as it admits 

 of their removal, without injury to the page, at any future 

 period, if it be required either to insert better specimens, or 

 intermediate species. Some of the larger Algae will not 

 adhere to the paper, and consequently require gumming. 

 The following method of preserving them will be found 

 one of the best: — " After well cleaning and pressing, 

 brush the coarser kinds of Algse over with spirits 

 of turpentine, in which two or three small lumps of 

 gum mastic have been dissolved, by shaking in a warm 

 place ; two-thirds of a small phial is the proper proportion, 

 and this will make the specimens retain a fresh appearance." 



CHAPTER II. 



To the shores ! where the bright green sea 



Its snowy spray is throwing. 

 Down by the mystic-looking caves, 



Where healthful winds are blowing. 

 There, cull the treasures of the deep, 



"Where gems of pearly beauty lie, 

 Where sea-birds their carousals keep, 



Chiding the stranger wand'ring by. 



The sea! the sea! its lonely shore, 



The billows crested white ; 

 The clouds that flit its bosom o'er, 



Or sun-beams dancing bright : 

 The breakers bursting on the strand 



In thunders on the ear : 

 The frowning cliff, the silvery sand, 



Each, all, to me are dear. 



"The sea! the sea! the deep proud sea!" what trea- 

 sures are concealed in its fathomless recesses! "Who, 

 in walking beside its shores, does not recall to mind tho 



