Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — MASS OF WONDROUS COLORS [ARTICLE]

MASS OF WONDROUS COLORS

Beauties of Sea-Gardens Along th* Massachusetts Coast Are Almost Beyond Description. Along the rocky coast of Nahant, Mass., the tide, rising and falling through a distance of nine feet, leaves as it recedes, quiet pools in the holes and crevices -at the base of the cliffs,, where flourish little worlds of marineplant sand animals. Of these tidepools of Nahant, the “Agassiz cave" contains one of the most beautiful of the sea-gardens of the northern shore. Completely covered at high tide, at low water the mysteries of Its recesses are revealed to wondering human eyes. Many-colored star-fishes and sea anemones, gorgeous sea weejjs, fragile, pink-hearted hydroids clustered in flowed-llke masses, delicate pink fronds of coralline, iridescent, violet-tipped Irish moss gleaming like jewels In the sunlight, and velvety green clusters of sea-lettuce —these are some of the beauties of the tide-pool. All have been exactly reproduced in the American museum, under the direction of Roy W. Miner, associate curator of the department of invertebrate zoology.