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peculiar style of colouring : the freckling of specks of 

 various tints of brown, grey, and red, so exactly re- 

 sembles the hues of the sand, that you might look close 

 at a shrimp so sunken, and yet not discern it. The 

 eyes, however, which are set on the top of the head, 

 like a Dutchman's garret windows, are keeping a bright 

 watch upward, and here it lies, quiet and, against most 

 enemies, safe. The iron lip of the drag, however, scrapes 

 up with its edge the upper inch of sand-bottom, routs 

 out the poor shrimps, which dart upwards, to find them- 

 selves within the mouth of the ever-advancing net. 

 The agency in the burrowing is the false feet, which, 

 waved rapidly to and fro, brush up the fine sand with 

 the currents that they make in the water, and throw it 

 up in those clouds on each side, presently to fall again 

 on the body, and help to conceal it. 



But there are more things than shrimps in the gleam- 

 ing, working, struggling mass of life before us. Not to 

 mind the uncouth soldier- crabs, dragging about their 

 despoiled shells, which, numerous and conspicuous as 

 they are, we shall neglect for another occasion, we 

 have other fish to fry. Here are sundry examples of 

 that remarkable race, the proper Flat-fishes. These 

 thin, brown, long-oval ones are specimens of Soles, of 

 which there are two kinds here, the Common Sole, 

 uniform dull brown, and the Lemon Sole, of a more 



