CUTTLE FISH. 



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times attach themselves to ship's bottoms in such numbers as 

 to retai'd their progress through the water; they do not, however, 

 bore into and destroy the timber, like the Teredines, or ship 

 worms, to which we have alluded in oui' brief notice of the 

 FholadcB. The growth of Barnacles must be very rapid, as a 

 ship perfectly free from them, will often retui'n after a short 

 voyage, with her bottom below the water line completely 

 covered. 



AVe give a representation of a group of these stalked mol- 

 lusks, as they appear affixed to a piece of timber. This is the 

 Common, or Duck Barnacle. 



CrTTLE FISH. 



Stkange 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 Cephalojpoda, 



