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fast as the necessities of the system require it, — 

 till the whole is ultimately exhausted. When this 

 is finished, the pipe becomes a binding ligament 

 of the viscera, and the little tottling biped, is ready 

 to pick up something with its bill. 



A YOUNG SHARK CARRYING THE YOLK OF THE EGG FROM 

 WHICH IT WAS HATCHED, SUSPENDED BY THE UMBILICAL 

 CORD, IN A SAC. 



Farmers, from their ignorance of the wonderful 

 provision by Divine Providence, for all oviperous 

 animals, destroy a va'st deal of young poultry, in 

 their mistaken humanity in trying to make them 

 feed too soon. Let them alone, and they will give 

 seasonable indications of their simple wants. 



From the box, Jacobi transported his stock, and 

 founded new colonies wherever he chose. Bloch 

 relates, as the result of an experiment, in speaking 

 of the reproductive power of the carp, that in a 

 pond of seven acres, in which were placed four 



