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expanded. Near the head there is on each side a 
large fin or wing, by the motions of which it changes 
its place. These motions are amusing; and as the 
little creatures are so abundant, they 
make the dreary sea quite alive with 
their gambols as they dance merrily 
along. In swimming, the Clio brings 
the tips of its fins almost into con- 
tact, first on one side, then on the 
other. In calm weather they rise to 
the surface in myriads, for the pur- 
pose of breathing ; but scarcely have 
they reached it before they again 
descend into the deep. Mr. Scoresby 
kept several of them alive in a glass 
of sea-water for about a month, 
when they gradually wasted away 
and died. The head of one of these little creatures 
exhibits a most astonishing display of the wisdom 
of God in creation. Around the mouth are placed 
six tentacles, each of which is covered with about 
three thousand red specks, which are seen by the 
microscope to be transparent cylinders, each con- 
taining about twenty little suckers, capable of being 
thrust out, and adapted for seizing and holding 
their minute prey. 
Thus, therefore, there will be three hundred and 
sixty thousand of these microscopic suckers upon 
the head of one Clio: an apparatus for prehension 
perhaps unequalled in the creation. 
CLIO. 
