IMPRESSIVE SCENE. 
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brown, and minutely granular. Large skate, rock 
cod, and otlier fish wliicli bad shared the untimely 
fate of the cuttles, were lying dead and bruised 
among the stones, and fragments of tlie giant 
Litbodes, or stone-crab, (like tbe monster I sent to 
tbe Britisb Museum) strewed the narrow strips 
of sand. It was an impressive scene, and remains 
indelibly stamped upon my memory. 
