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appears in the margin of the disk, which extends, cutting 

 through the tentacles of that side, splitting the disk 

 across, proceeding through the tentacles on the opposite 

 side till it divides the margin there also. Meanwhile, 

 it has advanced downward in an equal ratio, till it has 

 reached the base; and at length there are two half- 

 opelets still adhering in the closest proximity. Now, 

 however, the two raw and open surfaces close up, and 

 the bases glide gradually apart. A thick wall of flesh 

 forms between the stomach and the wound, and new 

 tentacles develop themselves on this. The two Opelets 

 are complete. 



Half-an-hour's vigorous pulling has doubled the long 

 promontory of Hope's Nose, a wilderness of stones, like 

 what I suppose, from published descriptions, the foot of 

 Mount Sinai to be, and brought us, between two raised 

 beaches, into the pretty cove of Meadfoot, capped by 

 elegant villas. These beaches, evidences of the lifting 

 of the land, for they surely once stood, as beaches stand 

 now, at the sea-level, are situate, the one on the main, 

 the other on the Thatcher, a rocky islet some two 

 hundred yards off shore. A few minutes more, and we 

 are in a wild scene indeed. Isolated rocks stand up, in 

 angular masses, upright columns, and sharp peaks, out 

 of the sea, which is quite deep, even at lowest spring- 

 tide. The coast itself too is rugged, precipitous, and in 



