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stupified, making not the least attempt to escape, as 

 we lifted it with the hand-net, and placed it in a pan 

 of water. There, however, it seemed in no wise 

 injured, but was as lively as so sluggish a fish usually 

 is, playing on the bottom of the vessel. What could 

 have caused it to lie in the burning rays of the sun, 

 on the top of the sea ? 



The dredges yielded me a fair harvest of zoolo- 

 gical varieties : — prettily painted Shrimps ( C7^angon) ; 

 graceful Prawns of the genera Palcemon, Paiidalus, 

 and Hippolyte; the Tiny Cockle ( Cardium exiguum) ; 

 two minute Tops [Trochus exiguus, and T. striatus) ; 

 the porcelain-like Naticse {N. Alderi and N, monili- 

 ferd), remarkable for the enormous masses of white 

 gelatinous flesh which they protrude when they crawl, 

 investing and almost concealing the shell ; a few Star- 

 fishes and Urchins ; plenty of Ascidice and Boti-yllidce ; 

 various Annelides ; — Hermits and Spider-crabs by 

 scores ; several specimens of the beautiful Cloak 

 Anemone [Adamsia maculatd) ; and a few of that 

 magnificent species, the Plumose Anemone [Actinia 

 dianthus)^ as well as the Parasitic, the Daisy, and the 

 Weymouth Anemones [A. 'parasitica^ hellis, and cla~ 

 vata). Some of these I have already described ; others 

 I shall take occasion to allude to ; I will here content 

 myself with a notice of one of the most gorgeously 

 clad of all the creatures that inhabit the deep, — the 

 Sea-mouse. 



It is not in its form that we must look for any 

 peculiar elegance, for it is a flattened worm, of an 

 oval outline bluntly pointed at each end ; — ^nor in its 

 general colour, for this is that of the pale brown sedi- 



