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with their luminous properties, in order to entice their 

 prey within their grasp ? 



In quitting the subject of the minute animals of the 

 ocean, I should not neglect to refer the curious to three 

 engravings in the volume of plates to the Voyage aux 

 Terres Australes, by Peron and Lesueur, where may be 

 seen the happiest efforts of the pencil in delineating 

 some of these interesting beings. The work is con- 

 tained in the Philadelphia library, and will amply repay 

 the trouble of a visit. C. 



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