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ness will appear from the fact that it sometimes reaches 

 a length of thirty feet, with a breadth of an eighth of 

 an inch. 



Mr. Kingsley has drawn the portrait of this ciliated 

 worm; and if he has painted it in somewhat dark colours, 

 and manifested more than a common measure of anti- 

 pathy to it, we must confess that the physical and moral 

 lineaments of the subject do in some degree justify the 

 description. I will quote his vivid words. 



" There are animals in which results so strange, fan- 

 tastic, even seemingly horrible, are produced, that fallen 

 man may be pardoned if he shrinks from them in dis- 

 gust. That, at least, must be a consequence of our own 

 wrong state ; for everything is beautiful and perfect in 

 its "place. It may be answered, ' Yes, in its place ; but 

 its place is not yours. You had no business to look at 

 it, and must pay the penalty for intermeddling.' I doubt 

 that answer : for surely, if man have liberty to do any- 

 thing, he has liberty to search out freely his Heavenly 

 Father's works ; and yet every one seems to have his 

 antipathic animal, and I know one bred from his child- 

 hood to zoology by land and sea, and bold in asserting, 

 and honest in feeling, that all without exception is beau- 

 tiful, who yet cannot, after handling, and petting, and 

 admiring all day long every uncouth and venomous 

 beast, avoid a paroxysm of horror at the sight of the 



