ARGONAUTA PAPER SAILOR. 139 



Hermit Crab, having destroyed the original 

 fabricator of the shell, takes possession of the 

 vacated tenement. 



How does this little animal verify the words 

 of the Psalmist, " They that go down to the sea 

 in ships, that do business in great waters, they 

 see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in 

 the deep." Ps. cvii. 23, 24. 



The art of navigation, in the imagination of 

 the poet, owed its origin to the expert manage- 

 ment of these little instinctive sailors, whilst 

 their shell suggested, the first idea of a vessel. 

 The name Argonauta is derived from vavr$ 

 (nautes) a sailor ; and Argo, the name of the 

 ship in which Jason made his memorable voyage 

 with his companions, the Argonauts. 



ARGONAUTA Argo* 

 PAPER NAUTILUS. 



Specific character. Shell having a narrow 

 keel sharply toothed on both sides ; sides flat, 

 with undulated forked ribs, extremely thin and 

 brittle ; colour white, teeth of the keel brown 

 towards the apex. Inhabits the Mediterranean 

 and Indian Ocean. 



* Plate VI. figure 5, 



