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the great Lutrarise in a cove near Goodrington ; but 

 all my dredging outside failed to procure a specimen. 

 Mr. Alder, however, and Mr. Cocks (who find every- 

 thing, and will at last certainly catch Midgard, 

 the great sea-serpent, as Thor did, by bait- 

 ing for him with a bull's head), have dredged them 

 in great numbers ; the former, at Helford in Corn- 

 wall, the latter, on the west coast of Scotland. It 

 seems, however, to be a southern monster, probably 

 a remnant, like the great cockle, of the Mediter- 

 ranean fauna ; for Mr. MacAndrew finds them plen- 

 tifully in Vigo Bay, and J. MuUer in the Adriatic 

 off Trieste. 



But what is he like ? Conceive a Yery fat short 

 earth-worm ; not ringed, though, like the earth-worm, 

 but smooth and glossy, dappled with darker spots, 

 especially on one side, which may be the upper one. 

 Put round its mouth twelve little arms, on each a 

 hand with four ragged fingers, and on the back of 

 the hand a stump of a thumb, and you have 

 Synapta Digitata (Plates IV. V., from my drawings of 

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