Once, when in extreme good-humor, she shewed us how to make beads resembling coral, from a certain paste which she manufactured; but we never could extract from her the names of the materials, and were obliged to content ourselves with making them under her direction.

Heaps of large sponges were found containing corals and some shells, all representative of present-day fauna.

Shall I dive into the sea And bring thee coral, making way Through the rising waves that fall In snowy fleeces?

The tiny polyp, in its unconscious life, builds the everlasting coral; each citizen is little more than the industrious insect.

What vast, though probably slow, processes changed that sea-bottom from one salt enough to carry corals and limestones, to one brackish enough to carry abundant remains of plants, deposited probably by the Orinoco, or by some river which then did duty for it?

The anchor of one of the boats having caught the coral, some delay was caused, during which an old man from the beach swam off to her, as if he perfectly understood what had happened, and, after diving several times, cleared the anchor, for which he was rewarded with an axe.

The bluff was decked with great bunches of a scarlet variety of the milkweed, like cut coral, and all starred with a mysterious-looking dark flower, whose cup rose lonely on a tall stem.

They darkened the coral and the sands and the glistening sea growths just as a cloud temporarily darkens the landscapeonly the occultations and brightenings succeeded each other much more swiftly.

That after the great coral reefs which spread over Somersetshire and South Wales, around the present estuary of the Severn,and those, once perhaps joined to them, which spread from Derby to Berwick, with a western branch through North-east Wales,were laid downafter all this, I say, some change took place in the sea-bottom, and brought down on the reefs of coral sheets of sand, which killed the corals and buried them in grit.

Accept, for the moment, my unsustained assertion, and plant our little coral on this sloping shore, some twelve or fifteen fathoms below the surface of the sea.

But I feel sure you have never seen coral to know very much about it, as you have never been to the bottom of the sea.

" To the coral-fishers of the Mediterranean, who seek the precious red coral, which grows firmly fixed to rocks at a depth of sixty to eighty fathoms, both the dredge and the trawl would be useless.

" Well, Faith she hesitated, standing there trying to muster her mind to the needle, and it ended by her taking the coral, though I don't believe she returned the pearls,but we none of us ever saw them afterwards.

You remember John Lyly's "Cupid and my Campaspe"?and how Cupid losing, "down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none lenows how) ...

But, wherever the bottom was stony, we could see huge prickly sea- urchins, huger brainstone corals, round and gray, and branching corals likewise, such as, when cleaned, may be seen in any curiosity shop.

Agnes is dead; your husband is gone, and I want you to come and bring the baby to the house, and I am going to get him some beautiful dresses, and some lovely coral I saw in New Orleans, and I am going to dress him so handsomely, that I believe Pa will feel just as I do, and think it a shame that such a beautiful child should be a slave.

They, therefore, have recourse to a sort of frame, to which are fastened long bundles of loosely netted hempen cord, and which is lowered by a rope to the depth at which the hempen cords can sweep over the surface of the rocks and break off the coral, which is brought up entangled in the cords.