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uppermost part, surrounded with rows of tentacles, or 

 claws, which, when contracted, appear like circles of 

 beads. This opening is capable of great extension ; and 

 it is amazing to see what large fishes some of them can 

 swallow 5 such as muscles, crabs, &c. When the animal 

 has scratched out the fish, it throws back the shells, 

 through the same passage. From this aperture it like- 

 wise produces its young ones alive ; already furnished 

 with little claws, which they extend in search of food, 

 as soon as they are fixed. At low water the animal- 

 flower is found on the rocky coasts of Sussex and Corn- 

 wall j attached in the shallows to some solid substance, 

 by a broad base, like a sucker. This base is worthy of 

 notice j the knobs observed upon it, are formed into 

 several parts, by its insinuating itself into the inequalities 

 of rocks, or grasping pieces of shells j part of which, fre- 

 quently remain in it, covered with the fleshy substance. 

 Animal-flowers very much resemble the exterior leaves 

 of the anemoney and their limbs are not unlike its shag, 

 or inner part." 



This description cannot fail to prove a faithful guide, 

 to direct the angler's search for so excellent a bait : it 

 was at one time called the sea nettle, from an erroneous 

 supposition that it stung all who touched it. 



Sea Fishes. 



The Cod. The Gar-fish. 



The Bass. The Skate. 



The Coal-fish. The Halibut. 



The Turbot. The Sand eel. 



The Haddock. The Congor eel. 



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