We can scarcely poke or pry for an hour among the 

 rocks, at low-water mark, or walk, with an observant 

 downcast eye, along the beach after a gale, without find- 

 ing some oddly-fashioned, suspicious-looking being, un- 

 like any form of life that we have seen before. The 

 dark concealed interior of the sea becomes thus invested 

 with a fresh mystery; its vast recesses appear to be 

 stored with all imaginable forms ; and we are tempted to 

 think there must be multitudes of living creatures whose 

 very figure and structure have never yet been suspected. 



Philip Gosse (from The Aquarium). 



