THE WONDEES OF THE SHORE. 



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the greater part of which are on this very stone, and 

 all of which you might obtain in an hour, would the 

 rude tide wait for zoologists : and remember that the 

 number of individuals of each species of polype must 

 be counted by tens of thousands ; and also, that, by 

 searching the forest of sea-weeds which covers the 

 upper surface, we should probably obtain some twenty 

 minute species more. 



A goodly catalogue this, surely, of the inhabitants 

 of three or four large stones ; and yet how small a 



