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beauty of many of the star-fishes; or, still more, in the 

 section of one of the wonderful spines of that echinus,* an 



A family of corals built up in the form of an oak, each " bud " affording 

 a lodging for a colony of animals. 



admirable and faithful copy of which I borrow from, a 

 former work and introduce here ? 



Do you know what coral is, or a coral reef, or of islands 

 built up through many years by the persistent creatures 

 * See " The Unwritten Record " for further particular* 



