134 THE SEA-SIDE AND AQUAEIUM. 



CHAPTEE IX. 

 SEKPULA, SABELLA, CHITON, DORIS, AND EOLIS. 



" Figured by hand divine, there's not a gem 

 Wrought by man's hand to be compared with them." 



" Do not despise the creatures because they are minute. No 

 doubt we should both of us prefer helping Rajah Brooke to 

 discover monstrous Apes in the tropical forests of Borneo, or 

 stumbling with Hooker upon herds of gigantic l Ammon Sheep ' 

 amid the Rhododendron thickets of the Himalaya, but it cannot 

 be ; and ' he is a fool,' says old Hesiod, ' who knows not how much 

 better half is than whole.' Let us be content with what is within 

 our reach, and doubt not that in these tiny creatures are mysteries 

 more than we shall fathom." REV. C. KINGSLEY. 



ON peering into any rock-pool, the young zoologist 

 cannot fail to perceive, attached to various pieces of 

 rock, broken crockery, loose shells or stones, clusters 

 of certain white twisted tubes, that resemble nothing 

 in the world so much as minute rams' horns, or 

 calcareous serpents, strangely intertwined with each 

 other. Each of these tubes is inhabited by a species 

 of marine annelid, or worm, called Serpula. This 

 curious animal, having once attached itself to any 



