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CHAPTER XLIV. 



POLYZOA (BRYOZOA,EHRENBERG) ASCIDIAN POLYPES. 



" Seas and deserts hide millions of animals from our observa- 

 tion. Innumerable artificial and strange stratagems are acted 

 in the howling wilderness and in the ' great deep/ that can 

 never come to our knowledge. Besides that, there are infinitely 

 more species of creatures, which are not to be seen without, nor 

 indeed with, the help of the finest glasses, than of such as are 

 bulky enough for the naked eye to take hold of. However, 

 from the consideration of such animals as lie within the com- 

 pass of our knowledge, we might easily form a conclusion of 

 the rest, that the same variety of wisdom and goodness runs 

 through the whole creation, and puts every creature in a con- 

 dition to provide for its safety and subsistence in its proper 

 station." 



WELL ! here we are once more upon the ocean's 

 shore, as Sir Isaac Newton has it, picking up shells, 

 in lamentable ignorance of the vast treasures that are 

 hidden underneath those heaving waves; by no 

 means a bad exchange for the busy town behind us, 

 where 



" Poor Nature, with her face begrimed with dust, 

 Is stoked, coked, smoked, and almost choked." 



There is something exhilarating in the exercise, as 

 we scramble over the wave-worn, tangle- thatched 

 rocks, and feel the salt spray which the "snoring 



