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to be Ciuiji;lit siil'cly in that w:iy, so, while one of ns moves the 

 not gently ahout, to keep him within Ihe spJUM! onclosed by it, 

 anotlier «lipH th(5 glass ])owl uixier him, lifts it (ini(;kly, and there 

 is a goiHM'iil (!X(;la,mation of triumph and delight, — we have him. 

 And now wo look more elosely ; yes, deeidedly ho is a novelty as 

 wollas a hoauty. (See Fig. 122, Pi^/c/io^/ma lactea A. Ag.) Those 



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white mossy tul'ts lor ova,ii(!s an; unlike anything we have found 

 biiforii (b^ig. 12.')), and not rej)r(!sente(l in any published figures 

 of Jelly-fishes. \V(; float about lujni for a while, hoping to find 

 moro of the, same kind, but no others make their appearance, 

 and we keep on our way to ]<]ast Point, whore there is a capital 

 fishing ground for Medusie of a,ll sorts. Here two currents meet, 

 and the Jelly-lishcs an; stranded as it were along the line of 

 juncture, able to move neither one way nor the other. At this 

 spot the s(^a a,(;tually swarms with life ; one cannot dip the net 

 into the water without bringing up Fleurobrachia, Dolina,, Idyia, 

 Melicortum, tfec, whihr the larger Zygodactyla and Aurolia Moat 

 about the boat in numbers. These large .Jelly-fislu;s j)roduce a 

 singular tilVeet as one sees tlumi at some (U^pth beneath the water; 



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