EED BANDFISH. 



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currents, amid which they may wriggle or float, but against 

 which they are evidently incapable of swimming with any 

 vigorous effort : by their struggles in the ocean, they cannot 

 fail to become speedily exhausted, and they are rejected by 

 the waves like inanimate matter, upon any coast toward 

 which the winds may have driven them. 



