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imaginable forms; and we are tempted to think 
there must be multitudes of living creatures whose 
very figure and structure have never yet been sus- 
pected. 
**¢Q sea! old sea! who yet knows half 
Of thy wonders or thy pride !’” 
Gossxz’s Aquarium, pp. 226, 227. 
These words have more than fulfilled themselves 
since they were written. Those Deep-Sea dredgings, 
of which a detailed account will be found in Dr. 
Wyville Thomson’s new and most beautiful book, 
“The Depths of the Sea,” have disclosed, of late 
years, wonders of the deep even more strange and 
more multitudinous than the wonders of the shore. 
The time is past when we thought ourselves bound 
to believe, with Professor Edward Forbes, that only 
some hundred fathoms down, the inhabitants of the 
sea-bottom “become more and more modified, and 
fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an 
abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits 
but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.” 
Neither now need we indulge in another theory 
which had a certain grandeur in it, and was not 
