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accumulating from the washings of the sea; a wave 
of tremendous power during the above named high 
tide in March, 1838, carried this vast mass off at 
one sweep, and scattered it over the adjacent parts 
of the bed of the river. 
A gale of wind from south-westin December, 1838, 
acted so powerfully on the sea as to cause it to 
dislodge from its bed amazing quantities of fuci, 
which were cast up in great piles in spots calculated 
to receive and detain the rejectamenta of the ocean. 
At the mouth of the Erme in particular, these great 
heaps must have amounted to very many hundred 
tons. This sea-weed however has now obtained 
such a good opinion from farmers as a dressing for 
corn lands that this vast bulk of manure was soon 
carted off and ploughed in for the future crops of 
wheat. 
I trust the reader will forgive me if I conclude 
my observations on our climate by indulging in one 
other extract from the great Devonshire Poet, which 
is in several respects so very accurately illusrtative 
thereof. 
“ O beautiful 
Art thou Devonia, or when Spring awakes 
The hud—the flower j or when the leafiness 
Crowning thy hills, beneath the Summer noon 
Gloriously rests ; or Autumn sheds her hues 
Divine : and if stern Winter rule the day, 
O’er thee the monarch of the sunken year 
Reigns with paternal mildness. Though his voice 
Is heard majestically urging on 
The loud sea storm ; and haply at his nod 
Cease the sweet murmurs of the streams as blow 
Th’ infrequent breezes of the biting East : 
Yet oftner ho permits the ocean gales 
To breathe on thee reviving warmth, and waft 
