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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Not
merely
interesting,
too,
but
brilliant
in
their
vegetation
are
sandhills;
and
the
seemingly
desolate
dykes
and
banks
of
salt
marshes
will
yield
many
a
curious
plant,
which
you
may
neglect
if
you
will:
but
lay
to
your
account
the
having
to
repent
your
neglect
hereafter,
when,
finding
out
too
late
what
a
pleasant
study
botany
is,
you
search
in
vain
for
curious
forms
over
which
you
trod
every
day
in
crossing
flats
which
seemed
to
you
utterly
ugly
and
uninteresting,
but
which
the
good
God
was
watching
as
carefully
as
He
did
the
pleasant
hills
inland:
perhaps
even
more
carefully;
for
the
uplands
He
has
completed,
and
handed
over
to
man,
that
he
may
dress
and
keep
them:
but
the
tide-flats
below
are
still
unfinished,
dry
land
in
the
process
of
creation,
to
which
every
tide
is
adding
the
elements
of
fertility,
which
shall
grow
food,
perhaps
in
some
future
state
of
our
planet,
for
generations
yet
unborn.
But
to
return
to
the
water-world,
and
to
dredging;
which
of
all
sea-side
pursuits
is
perhaps
the
most
pleasant,
combining
as
it
does
fine
weather
sailing
with
the
discovery
of
new
objects,
to
which,
after
all,
the
waifs
and
strays
of
the
beach,
whether
“flotsom
jetsom,
or
lagand,”
as
the
old
Admiralty
laws
define
them,
are
few
and
poor.
I
say
particularly
fine
weather
sailing;
for
a
swell,
which
makes
the
dredge
leap
along
the
bottom,
instead
of
scraping
steadily,
is
as
fatal
to
sport
as
it
is
to
some
people’s
comfort.
But
dredging,
if
you
use
a
pleasure
boat
and
the
small
naturalist’s
dredge,
is
an
amusement
in
which
ladies,
if
they
will,
may
share,
and
which
will
increase,
and
not
interfere
with,
the
amusements
of
a
water-party.
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