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effects of their poison, and discussed the remedies 

 best adapted to neutralize it. Conspirators brewed 

 nauseous beverages from their slimy bodies, and 

 administered the potion confident of its deadly 

 powers. Every nation in the world on whose shores 

 the poor Sea-Hares crawled, accorded to them the 

 attributes of ferocity and malignant virulence, al- 

 though there never appears to have been the slightest 

 foundation for a belief in their crimes. 



A specimen of the Aplysia that I had in my tank 

 deposited a stringy coil of spawn, which closely re- 

 sembled that of the Eolis, with the exception that 

 the eggs, instead of being white, were of a reddish 

 tint. 



