Introduction to algology : with a catalogue of American algae, or sea-weeds, according to the latest classification of Prof. Harvey / by John Hooper.

  • Hooper, John, 1802-1869.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Introduction to algology : with a catalogue of American algae, or sea-weeds, according to the latest classification of Prof. Harvey / by John Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION TO ALGOLOGY. SOXG OF THE SEA.WEED. I am born in cryftal bower, Win-re the despot hath no power To trail and turn the oozy fern. Or trample down the fair sea flowe'r. I am born where human skill Cannot bend me to its will ; N'>ne can delve about my mof, And nurse me for my bloom and fruit: I am left to spread and grow In my rifted bed below, Till I break my slender ho!d As the porpoise tumbleth o'er me, And on I go—now high—now low— With the ocean-world before me. Eliza Cook. In selecting litis branch of Natural History as the theme for this little treatise, I am not actuated by the belief that it is of more importance, or that its study is more fascinating and calculated to elicit a livelier interest, than any other; fori am impressed that every branch of Natural History is equally important, equal'v interesting ; and that every thing appertaining to the book of nattue possesses within itself a fascinating power, which, when under- stood, cannot fail to awaken the purest admiration in the human mind ;—but I am induced to lake this subject as a page in God's book hitherto overlooked and neglected in this country—a pao-e which, I. know, requires only to be opened to be duly appreciated by those who can look in nature, and there see nature's God. I am aware that this class, Algoe, is in the lowest scale of vecre- table organism ; that its habitat being the mighty deep, it is f irther from pur view ; that we therefore do not come every day in contact with it; that its beauties and its uses are mostly hidden from us.