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virtuous, intelligent, independent poverty? And 

 sucli heroism is tliine ! " — Chambers s Edin. Journ., 

 'Boy. 23, 1844. 



Mr. Peacli is now, we are glad to say, rewarded 

 in part for liis long labours in the cause of science, 

 by having been removed to a more lucrative post on 

 the north coast of Scotland; the earnest, it is to be 

 hoped, of still further promotion. 



I mentioned just now Synapta ; or, as Montagu 

 called it, Chirodota: a much better name, and, I 

 think very uselessly changed ; for Chirodota ex- 

 presses the peculiarity of the beast, which consists 

 in — start not, reader — twelve hands, like human 

 hands, while S}Tiapta expresses merely its power of 

 clinging to the fingers, which it possesses in com- 

 mon with many other animals. It is, at least, a 

 beast worth talking about ; as for finding one, I fear 

 that we have no chance of such bliss. 



Colonel Montagu found them here some forty 

 years ago ; and after him, Mr. Alder, in 1845. I 

 found hundreds of them, but only once, in 1854 

 after a heavy south-eastern gale, washed up among 



