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THE SEA. 



impunity ; a dog, a puppy, and a fowl, swallowed parts of them nearly with impunity, the first 

 named only seeming 1 to have severely felt the sting in his mouth, but recovering perfectly soon 



AGALMA RUBRA (THREE-FIFTHS NATURAL SIZE). 



after. The ardent experimentalist next ate, and caused his servant to eat, the chicken which 

 had fed on Physalia, and no inconvenience followed ; subsequently he ate twenty - five 

 grains of the dried and powdered animal in a little bouillon, and he was unharmed. Yet there 



