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Beautiful Shells, 



its lions C; and sits down to fisTiing in a small way 

 for an lionest and respectable liveliliood. 



A piece of timber covered witli Stalked Bar- 

 nacles^ wriggling and twisting about like so many 

 lielmetcd snakes, and waving tlieir i^lume-like 

 civrlii, is a very curious siglit. They sometimes: 



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attacli tliemselves to sinps' bottoms in sucli num- 

 bers as to retard tlieir progress tlirougli tlie water; 

 Llicy do not, liowever, bore into and destroy tlie 

 timber, like tlie Teredines, or sliip-worms, to wliicli 

 wc have alluded in our brief notice of tlio Fholadce. 

 Tlie c^'owtli of Barnacles must be very rapid, as a 



