OCEAN GAUDENS; 



OR, 



GLIMPSES BENEATH THE WATERS. 



chapteh I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



What tlie vast majority of our migratory flocks of 

 summer and autumnal idlers generally do and think 

 at the sea-side, cannot be better exemplified than 

 by reference to the clever sketches which are found 

 occupying entire pages of our illustrated periodicals 

 and newspapers, during the season of marine migra- 

 tion. But the habits and customs of the annual 

 shoal of visitors to our w^atering-places, may be still 

 more intimately comprehended through the medium 

 of the sprightly essays which generally accompany 

 those truly artistic delineations. 



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