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slate, nearly four hundred feet in height, in one un- 

 broken mass. Grass and ivy grow on the narrow 

 ledges and slopes, and the towering summit is crowned 

 by a conical peak of verdant turf, the loftiest of the 

 forrs. 



Up to this giddy height the path still winds by a 

 zigzag course ; every step bringing the traveller into 

 a purer atmosphere, and giving him a wider and more 

 exhilarating prospect ; just as a child of God, the 

 more his walk approaches heavenward, obtains fuller 

 and sweeter communion with his Father, and enjoys 

 clearer and more expanded views of his purposes, both 

 of providence and grace. 



A NEV^ MEDUSOID. 



Aiig. 26th. In a large glass jar containing sea- 

 weeds and many kinds of zoophytes, &c., alive, I 

 found swimming in the water among the medusoids 

 of Campanularia voluhilis, and Laomedea ge?iiculata, 

 a single medusoid, in general resembling the former, 

 but a little smaller, and differing in the following par- 

 ticulars. (See Plate XXII.) 



The teatacles were eight pairs, each pair set in con- 

 tact with each other: at first they seemed only twin 

 bulbs, but after a time they lengthened into short 

 cylindrical wrinkled flexible arms, each terminated by 

 a globular head, of nearly twice the diameter of the 

 arm. The globose head contained an irregular num- 

 ber of clear oval grains, each of which had an oval 

 mark within it ; the form and structure closely resem- 

 bling those of the tentacles of Coryne. 



