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gets his ailments, and health, which he ceases to pursue, by the 

 blessing of God often comes, as it were, of its own accord. His 

 mind is soothed and refreshed, and the salutary influence is felt by 

 the enfeebled body." 



There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 



There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

 There is society where none intrudes, 



By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 



Byron. 



I've tracked the paths of dark wild wood, 



No foot-fall there but my own ; 

 I've lingered beside the moaning flood, 



But I never felt alone. 

 There were lovely things for my soul to meet, 



Rare work for my eye to trace ; 

 I held communion close and sweet 



With my Maker — face to face. 



Eliza Cook. 



To any person who can snatch an hour or so occasionally to 

 wander on the sea shore in pursuit of Algae, there are many advan- 

 tages. He not only becomes belter acquainted with the habits and 

 characteristics of the objects of his favorite study, and enriches his 

 cabinet with new and rare specimens, but it compels hrfli to become 

 familiar with a vast variety of other natural objects. He observes 

 numerous species of aquatic birds, and knows more of their real 

 history than many a parlor student, who has won a passing fame by 

 writing hard names, of compound Greek and Latin, upon Ornitho- 

 logy in his study. He cannot fail to meet with beautiful shells, 

 and observe the habits of the various molluscous animals to which 

 they belong — a knowledge gained, to which many, possessing splendid 

 cabinets of shells, are strangers. The Algologist has seen with his 

 own eyes the living Scallop glide through the waters, by swiftly 

 opening and shutting his shell continuously. Some Choncologists 

 have only read of such. The Algologist, in his sea-side rambles, 

 meets with the Heart Urchin and the Star-fish, and perceives at 

 once their affinity. He meets, too, with a multitude of Polypes, 

 from the simple Coryne and the beautiful Actiniae to the compound 

 Helianthoida. He will observe the Crustacea shed his shell, — a 

 fact doubted by some cloister naturalists, but known to every lover 

 of Algology who collects his own specimens. The beautiful Jelly 



