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CAPRELLID/E. 



Couch among confervae, at Lariggan Rocks, Mount's 

 Bay, Cornwall. In Norway it has been recorded by 

 Rathke, and Kroyer has procured it at Christiana in 

 Sweden. 



The following vignette represents one of these spectre- 

 shrimps prowling through the deep recesses of a submarine 

 graveyard, such as Clarence dreamt of when he said : — 



' ' Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, 

 A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, 

 Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, 

 Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, 

 All scattered at the bottom of the sea. 

 Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes 

 Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept 

 (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems. 

 That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, 

 And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by." 



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