The Osprey. (Rising with fish. Tumult of water. Bald eagle and catfish, incident, Cape Cod.) See Wolf’s “Wild Animals.” The Canoe (modern and Indian). The Toll Bridge. (Old covered bridge in spans.) Bennett’s Bridge. Glimpse out from openings of bridge. The Toll-man’s daughter. (Pathos. Dragging the River. The white face among the lily-pads.) Drifting. (Sentiment.) Spearing Fish by night. Drawing the Seine. The Rope Ferry. (North Hampton.) Calling the Ferry in “ye olden tyme.” (The swarthy boatman. The Ferryman’s Cottage. Interior of Cottage.) Cascade and Factories. (Moonlight.) Through a Large Manufacturing Town. Picturesque Factories. Approach to Salt Water. (Stooping from boat to drink from the river,--brackish water! This and the presence of the mallows which had escaped our notice, betoken the inroads of the sea.) Rest this section herewith. _The Delta and the Deep Sea_ Navigation. (Scene on Hudson, or Connecticut, or Mississippi. Barges. Twilight from ferry-boat; (further on?)) Snipe Shooting. Wild Ducks. (Chesapeake Bay. Clouds of duck,--and hunters.) Salt Marshes. (Gathering Salt hay. See Sound sketches. “Picturesque America.”) Crab-fishing. (Sheepshead Bay.) Low Tide on Marsh. (Fiddler crabs, playing about holes.) From the edge of the Boat. (A natural aquarium. Hermit Crabs, fishes, mussels, algæ.) Samphire gatherers. (See Hawthorne. Footprints on Seashore. Samphire luncheon.) The Prickly Opuntia. (Allude to the wondrous caress of the stamina. A beautiful cactus, common on our shores, yet quite unknown.) Fisherman’s Huts. (Quaint houses made of canal-boats. Half canal-boat, set up on end. See studio prints.) Gathering Sea-weeds. A Nursling of the Sea. (Beautiful floating Laminaria.) The Throng at the Surf. (Coney Island or Rockaway.) Oyster-dredging. (Water in action--picturesque boat.) Among the Driftwood. Eggs of shark or skate. Wind-waves on Sand. (Original explanation.) Sand Yellow-Jackets digging caves in sand. Sand-spider. Gossamer tunnel. Fierce maternal solicitude. Fairy Circles in Sand (around bending grasses.) Faint Columns of Gnats in still twilight rising like streaks of smoke from salt-marshes. A Marsh nest. Gulls. Tiger Beetles and holes. Under the Water. Rocky Headland. (Mt. Desert, Nahant.) The Sporting Shoal. Porpoises. The Vasty Deep. Limitless Mid-ocean. The Return of the Waters. Waterspout. Earth and Heaven. Finis. A link completing the cycle. Tailpiece. CHAPTER VIII THE PERSONAL SIDE