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interspersed with groups of luminous lamps. An- 

 otlier related form has the tail end of the body 

 raised high while the skeleton remains where it 

 v/ould in a more normally shaped fish — the fin sup- 

 ports being thus clearly visible and actually outside 

 the opaque part of the body. 



Small and jet black spots were occasionally seen 

 embedded in the glassy piles, and in a dish of water 

 each resolved into a diminutive sea-devil, usually a 

 huge mouth with merely enough tail to propel it 

 through the water, or another with a long-armed 

 luminous candle waving about as hving bait over 

 the great maw, or again an inch of fish with such 

 elongated fins that it could never have touched the 

 bottom without injury, or in fact have come near 

 anything more solid than the icy water in which 

 it was born, lived and died. 



