take them, some day, to purchase two or three of his baskets, before they left Seaview. "That bunch of pink leaves with still darker veins, is a sea-weed, often introduced among groups of shells, on account of its beauty and delicacy. Here, Frank," continued his mother, "is a seaweed as thick as a rope: you may save this to take home, it will serve as a weather-glass; for, when the air is dry, so is the plant; and when it becomes damp, so does the plant also. This plant, with thick, fleshy, brown leaves, is the bladder fucus. On the coast of Scotland it is gathered and made into kelp. Immense quantities are exported, as it is used by soap-boilers and dyers. Now for your shells: these sands do not afford any of value; and those pebbles which your aunt showed you in the cabinet have

been cut and polished with great nicety, though I have no doubt they looked, when first found, as common as these. Her shells were all brought from the East and West Indies, where they are found just as you saw them, beautiful in colour, highly polished, and variously formed." "I wish we had such shells in this country, mamma," said Frank. "Be content with your own country, and its productions," returned his mamma: "when you have read a little more, you will find how many blessings we enjoy in this happy island, which the inhabitants of those hot countries are denied; and if they have fine shells, they have also many noxious reptiles to encounter, which we only know by name. This long, dark blue shell, is called a muscle-shell, and the fish it contains is very good to eat: it is much used for bait