Multitudinous Life 



found often to have their stomachs full of the 

 mud or ooze or clay which in that particular 

 place carpets the ocean-bed. 



Even in far shallower waters, not much 

 removed from the "hundred-fathom line," thouij^h 

 still beyond the region of living sea-weed, crabs 

 dredged up are found to have indulged freely 

 in the same frugal rations. 



There is of course no difficulty as to animal- 

 food in any depth. The fight for life goes on 

 below, as above ; and the weaker succumbs to 

 the stronger, or the less cunning to the more 

 subtle, in the deep as within reach of sunlight. 



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