life in the ocean. f)7 
subjected to certain a j , 
evident accident tl ^ ^ W ® nev6r find 011 the coast > except 
sWej nor on the ’ t “ 8pecies tbat we meet with far from tbe 
in the depths of ocean wLose habits lead thorn to tide 
an d colour from the «« i • ^ . ™ mense varieties of size, shape, form, 
fte small zoophytes and ? ^l- 6 ve § etati °n which serves to nourish 
and even five hundred , ll8 ' Sj to tbe lon g> slender algae, of fifty, 
tetween the microscopic irf K S ^ e l llgtb ! How vast the disparity 
“ we find nrr- trr gigautic ^ ! 
constitute its beauty • grandeur r Uldt y aud diversity, which 
P tr * — 
of tte sea; but how 
more than two thousand vearTZ , , figUre and deScribe ! during 
seeded by research without inter^n * ^ “ d mic- 
as Lamarck observes, “ which Sciei, L i ,.,? Ut h ° w vast the field,” 
carry tiie knowledge already acquired to tl' i° CUHmte ’ in order to 
which it is susceptible!” 1 to the de S ree of perfection of 
pt some few leaves u P on the 
In the first moments of its retreat tb , ° 7 't ‘ ** bcars 111 its bosom - 
of substances, vegetable and animal wtht^ C ° Doot a *** 
olours and properties. Tbe Vanon8 cba ^ristic 
fo od, tbeir commerce, and their ^ occtnt “ fiad there their 
nearest villages and hamlets send S ? At W Wat « the 
men, women, and children to the h, U C0 ^ lu S e nts, obi and young, 
gathering tbe ribboned ^ themsJves to 
sombre brown Fueus vesieulosus fit !T ’ 6 membrail011s tbe 
the dwellers by the soa, being then mud } & ° f gre&t W6alth to 
gather tbe small shells left on the ! T “ making kel P > others 
m search of whelks (Buccinum) \ d A? m ° Unt u P° a the rocks 
{Patella), and other edible marine anbills detacb lim P et « 
they have attached themselves On ‘ ^ “ rocks to whic h 
^tberia, and Bucardia, are sought TV^’ aS Maetra > 
