Excerpt from Testacea Atlantica: Or the Land and Freshwater Shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena Calm in its beauty lay the western sea; And every rippling wave which leapt around Those craggy isles took up the choral sound Which tells, great pictured Continent, of thee. O blest atlantis, can the legend be Built on wild fancies which thy name surround? Or doth the story of thy classic ground With the stern facts of Nature's face agree? What if no tongue may tell l - thy halo fair Still lingers round the isles which slumber there; And as those towering peaks, sun-gilded, rise Into the bosom of primeval skies, Bathed in God's glance, and ocean-girt, they stand, Like trophies left by time to mark that shadowy land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.