Gunnison Valley News | 1919-09-19 | Page 6 | Mass of Wondrous Colors

MASS OF WONDROUS COLORS Beauties of Sea-Gardens Along the Massachusetts Coast Are Almost Beyond Description. Along the rocky coast of Nahant, Mass., tile 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 vorlds of marine plant sand animals. Of these tide-pools tide-pools of Nahant. the "Agassiz cave" contains one of the most beautiful of I he sea-gardens of the northern shore. Completely covered at high tide, at low water the mysteries of ils recesses are revealed to wondering human eyes. Many-colored star-lishes and sea anemones, gorgeous sea weeds, fragile, pink-hearted hydroids clustered in flowed-like 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 Ameri-can museum, under the direction of Hoy W. Miner, associate curator of the department of invertebrate zoology.