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THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. 



They can rise or fall at pleasure, executing, as 

 they move up and down, with rapidity and ease, a 

 marvellous series of evolutions. 



THE CYDIPPE, OR BEROE. 



Greatly differing in external appearance from the 

 animal last described, though allied to it in certain 

 respects, is the girdle of Venus. This creature, an 



THE GIRDLE OP VENUS. CESTUM VENERIS. 



inhabitant of the Mediterranean, appears, at first, 

 to be a long flat riband of translucent glass ; its 

 length is sometimes six or seven feet, its breadth 



