Ocean gardens River gardens1857

What the vast majority of our migratory flocks of summer and autumnal idlers generally do and think at the sea-side, cannot be better exemplified than by reference to the clever sketches which are found occupying entire pages of our illustrated periodicals and newspapers, during the season of marine migration. But the habits and customs of the annual shoal of visitors to our watering-places, may be still more intimately comprehended through the medium of the sprightly essays which generally accompany those truly artistic delineations. And is there really nothing better to do-no better regime to go through, than the daily repetition of the monotonous programme of entertainment thus playfully described and ridiculed?