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COMMON OBJECTS OF THE SHORE. 



passed. The slightest motion immediately alarmed 

 them. Every one who, when bathing, has tried 

 to catch a jelly-fish, knows how difficult is the 

 capture, as they glide away from the approaching 

 hand, and were it not that the wave dashes them 

 against us, we should probably rarely succeed in 

 obtaining one. Our common species are termed 

 Sea-blubbers, Sea-dangers, Falling-stars, or Sea- 

 crosses. At Dovor they are very generally called 

 Starch-fishes. 



A very beautiful jelly-fish, which in some parts 

 of our coasts is not rare, is the Globular Beroe 

 (Gydippe pileus], and it is a more lovely object 



under the microscope than can possibly be ima- 

 gined by those who have not witnessed it. It is 

 of an oval shape, often nearly an inch long, and 

 having eight belts of little plates on its surface, 

 which serve as paddle-wheels. These plates con- 



