ence.

The ocean was covered to a great extent with myriads of
animalcules; these little beings, organized, alive, endowed with
locomotive power, a quality of shining whenever they please, of
illuminating every body with which they come in contact ... all
these ideas crowded upon us, and bade us admire the Creator, even
in His minutest works.... I hope I shall not have formed too
favourable an opinion of my readers, if I expect that the
generality will sympathize with me in these feelings.

In Dusky Bay:

We glided along by insensible degrees, wafted by light airs past
numerous rocky islands, each of which was covered with wood and
shrubberies, where numerous evergreens were sweetly contrasted
and mingled with the various shades of autumnal yellow. Flocks of
aquatic birds enlivened the rocky shores, and the whole country
resounded with the wild notes of the feathered tribe.... The view
of rude sceneries in the style of Rosa, of antediluvian forests
which clothed the rock, and of numerous rills of water which
everywhere rolled down the steep declivity, altogether conspired
to complete our joy.

Cascade Cove in New Zealand:

This waterfall at a distance of a mile and a half seems to be but
inconsiderable on account of its great elevation; but, after
climbing about 200 yards upwards, we ... found a view of great
beauty and grandeur before us. The first object which strikes the
beholder is a clear column of water eight or ten yards in
circumference, which is projected with great impetuosity from the
perpendicular rock at the height of 100 yards. Nearly at the
fourth part of the whole height this column meeting a part of the
same rock, which now acquires a little inclination, spreads on
its broad back into a limpid sheet of about twenty-five yards in
width. Here its surface is curled, and dashes upon every little
eminence in its rapid descent, till it is all collected in a fine
basin about sixty yards in circuit, included on three sides by
the natural walls of the rocky chasm, and in front by huge masses
of stone irregularly piled above each other. Between them the
stream finds its way, and runs foaming with the greatest rapidity
along the slope of the hill to the sea. The whole neighbourhood
of the cascade ... is filled with a steam or watery vapour.... We
... were struck