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are our desires transferred from dish to dish. Love 
only, dear delusive, delightful love, restrains. our 
wandering appetites, and confines them toa particu- 
lar gratification.” I think here the burlesque of the 
‘« Rovers or the double Arrangement,” has supplied me 
with an admirable illustration of love atthe bottom 
of the sea, among the seductive allurements of soles, 
turbot, and oysters, sardines, anchovies, and stur- 
geon. 
This is one phase of appetite among sea devils ; 
we shall present another of mere mischief and devils 
ry. Colonel Hamilton Smith once witnessed the 
destruction of a soldier by a cephaloptera off Trini- 
dad. The soldier, a good swimmer, was attempting 
to desert from the ship then at anchor in the entrance 
of the Boca, It was just after daylight, and the 
man being ealled to bya sailor in the main-cross- 
trees, endeavoured to return to the vessel, when at 
the moment a devil fish just threw one of his fing 
over him and earried him down. This was not for 
the gratification of appetite; it was for pure mis-.- 
chief and frolic that he bore down the swimming 
soldier. 
The sea-devils luxuriate much upon the surface, 
and though they have never been observed so frolic 
some as their congeners the sting-rays, ~-the trygons, 
who frequently spring out of the water, and pitch 
themselves toa distance like quoits, yet they are 
fond of sauntering about, flapping first one wing- 
like fin and then the other in the sunny fluid. In. 
an early morning sail from Passage Fort to Kingston, 
among the stretch of shoals between Fort Augusta 
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