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ship perfectly free from tliem^ will often return after 

 a short voyage^ witli Ler bottom below the water- 

 line completely covered. 



We give a representation of a group of these 

 stalked mollushs_, as they appear affixed to a piece 

 of timber. This is the Common_, or Duck Barnacle. 



CUTTLE-FISn. 



Strange 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 CepJialojjodaj called 

 Sepiaj or Cuttle-fish. But before we go any further, 

 let us inquire Vv^hat is meant by a Ceplialopod. 

 Our readers have already learned that Gasteropod 

 means stomach and foot, and that accplicdous means 

 headless ; now here we have a word which takes a 

 portion of each of the others [cephal — head, and 

 fcda, ov poda — a foot), consequently cepli-a-lo-po-da 

 is a class of molluscous animals which have their 

 feet, or organs of motion, arranged round the head, 

 something, you may suppose, like the celebrated 

 hero of nursery rhymes, 



" Tom Toddy, all head and no body.'* 

 Only our bag-shaped Mr. Sepia, with his great. 



