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ship perfectly free from them, will often return after 
a short voyage, with her bottom below the water- 
line completely covered. 
We give a representation of a group of these 
stalked mollusks, as they appear affixed to a piece 
of timber. This is the Common, or Duck Barnacle. 

CUTTLE-FISH. 
Strange and monstrous as are the forms of many 
of the creatures that inhabit the deep, there are, 
perhaps, none more so than those belonging to 
that division of the class Cephalopoda, called 
Sepia, or Cuttle-fish. But before we go any further, 
let us inquire what is meant by a Cephalopod. 
Our readers have already learned that Gasteropod 
means stomach and foot, and that acephalous means 
headless; now here we have a word which takes a 
portion of each of the others (cephal—head, and 
peda, or poda—a foot), consequently ceph-a-lo-po-da 
is a class of molluscous animals which have their 
feet, or organs of motion, arranged round the head, 
something, you may suppose, like the celebrated 
hero of nursery rhymes, 
“Tom Toddy, all head and no body.” 
Only our bag-shaped Mr. Sepia, with his great, 
