The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-25
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From James s. Waters:
THE SEA- ia Ner From the French ofM. J. Michelet'
Translated the latest Paris edition. VOL limo.
PIP. 405 New York. Rudd Carleton. 1861.
This work, full of that interesting research and
detail which Mr.. Michelet bestows on his subjects
is in respect totally different from any thing
he has heretofore given to the public. 1t is COM
position perfectly chase and refined, and blending,
it does, in most artistic manner, sober science
and airy fancy, cannot fail to attract both the lover
of knowledge and the seeker of amusement Mr.
NJ leads to study the sea; to wonder at it: to
pause, awed and amazed, at the vast life that pull
safes in its innermost receSses, from one great
heart and distributes itself through arteries and
veins throughout the whole globe; to know
that to it the atmosphere belongs, through
which and by which the hill and the
valley are vivifed and formulated. The heats
of the line, Mr.. 81. tells us raise the waters in
of vapor, and from the dark clouds thus
formed, rains and dews are distributed, modifying
the heat Of each country and interchanging the
vapors of the two worlds. "Marvellous copart
nership and mutual reaction! South America
from the respiration Of lis forests, condensed
INTO clouds, fraternally nourishes the flowers and
fruits of our Europe The air which revives and
nsprits is the tribute paid by the hundred isles
of Asia, exhaled by the great vegetation of Java
and Ceylou, and entrusted to the great cloud
messenger that with the world and sheds life
and freshness upon it,"
The author discourses next upon the currents of
the ocean. and pays tribute to "the patient and in
genous Maury, the learned poet of the seattle
apostle of the sea-
There are chapters on sands and beaches, on tenn
pests and storms, and the beautiful vegetation
of the sea; "the really marvellous marine Flora,
This he speaks of a type of ali purity. GLOW
Innocent" he says, care all its members. Not one
Of them all is poisonous. Vany in the whole ma
line vegetation shall you search for one poisonous
plant. Seek in every sea, and in every latitude,
you will find the vegetation Wholesome and genial
blessing and mercy" 1t is the pure growth of
that element which God never cursed.
There are stories of the myriads of the mighty
deep, of the hermits of the ocean and its wander
ers, of It's warriors and their victims. "With but
few exceptions the author says, ''the Moluscs
know themselves the prey of every thing, and are
therefore the most timid of creatures. The Conch
well knows that he is sought after, that he dares
not leave his shelter, and dies there for fear of
being killed. The Yolute and the Porcelain drag
slowly along their pretty houses and conceal them
best they can. The Casque, to get along with
his palace, has only little Chinese foot, SO small
Such the life, such the dwelling; in no other spe-
cies is there more complete identity between the
iuhabitant and the habtation; taken from his own
substance, his house is but a continuation, sup
pIement of his body; alike it, even in form and
tints. The architect beneath the ediice, is him
self its very foundation stone.''
The work is. well translated, the spirit of the
original being admirably preserved. There
is but alteration which we would suggest, and
that is in the translation of the title of Book the
Fourth which treats of sea bathing and its sanitary
effects. This should not be 'the restoration of the
sea- but rather restoration by the sea or the res
toring power of the
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