the shallow streamlets here hold hundreds of these 

 forms, both free and fixed, which during the egg 

 or larval stage have drifted in with the tides and 

 remained to complete their growth, never wanting 

 in these prolific precincts the means of livelihood 

 no matter how prolonged their stay. To list these 

 various vagabonds, would be to give almost the 

 entire catalogue of the common creatures of this 

 section of the Atlantic Coast. However, conspic- 

 uous among these are such fishes as the ray, the 

 crab-eater, the killifish, and flounder; crustaceans, 

 such as Gammarus, the scud, and Orchestia, the 

 beach flea — to say nothing of the prawn, Palcemo- 

 netes, or Crangon, the shrimp — prevail by the mil- 

 lions, while the larger forms like the green crab, 

 the mud crab, and the hermit crab can be reckoned 

 by the score; of the different worms and mollusks 

 deserving mention, the numbers are too great even 

 to name. And then there are the numerous anoma- 

 lies, which to the uninitiated can be recognized 

 neither for plants nor animals, the strange, yet 

 familiar, encrusting animal growths and sponges, 

 the soft-bodied polyps, the sea-squirts and their 

 colonial cousins, the compound ascidians — living 

 rosettes of purple which give little outward evi- 



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