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(From the Natural History ; trans.) 



"DUT in the seas, spread out as they are far and 

 wide, forming an element at once so deli- 

 cate and so vivifying, and receiving the generating 

 principles from the regions of the air, as they are 

 ever produced by Nature, many animals are to be 

 found, and indeed, most of those thai are of mon- 

 strous form ; from the fact, no doubt, that these 

 seeds and first principles of being are so utterly 

 conglomerated and so involved, the one with the 

 other, from being whirled to and fro, now by the 

 action of the winds and now by the waves. Hence 

 it is that the vulgar notion may very possibly be 

 true, that whatever is produced in any other de- 

 partment of Nature, is to be found in the sea as 

 well ; while, at the same time, many other produc- 

 tions are there to be found which nowhere else 

 exist. That there are to be found in the sea the 

 forms, not only of terrestial animals, but of inani- 

 mate objects even, is easily to be understood by 

 all who will take the trouble to examine the grape- 

 fish, the sword-fish, the saw-fish, and the cucumber- 

 fish, which last so strongly resembles the real 

 cucumber both in colour and in smell. We shall 



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