434 



CEPHALOPODA, 

 Ff^.203. 



A B 



(477.) The Argonaut constitutes another family of the CEPHA- 

 LOPODA, and is remarkable as being the inhabitant of a shell of 

 exquisite beauty, familiarly known as that of the Paper-Nautilus ; 

 a shell which from remote antiquity has been decorated with all 

 the ornaments of fiction, and celebrated alike by Poetry and her 

 sister Arts. 



It was, indeed, to this CEPHALOPOD, that the ancients assigned 

 the honour of having first suggested to mankind the possibility of 

 traversing the sea in ships ; and nothing could be more elegant than 

 the little barque in which the Argonaut was supposed to skim 



