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which it changes its place. These motions are 
‘amusing; and as the little creatures are so abundant, 
Foop or tHE WHALE: 
1, Limacina helicina ; 2, 3, 4, Medusa ; 5, Clio borealis. 
they make the dreary sea quite alive with their gam- 
bols as they dance merrily along. In swimming, the 
Clio brings the tips of its fins almost into contact, 
first on one side, then on the other: in calm weather 
they rise to the surface in myriads, for the purpose of 
breathing but scarcely have they reached it before 
they again descend into the deep. Mr. Scoresby 
kept several of them alive in a glass of sea-water for 
about a month, when they gradually wasted away 
and died. The head of one of these little creatures 
‘exhibits a most astonishing display of the wisdom of 
God in creation. Around the mouth are placed six 
tentacles, each of which is covered with about three 
thousand red specks, which are seen by the micro- 
scope to be transparent cylinders, each containing 
about twenty little suckers, capable of being thrust 
out, and adapted for seizing and holding their minute 
prey. “Thus, therefore, there will be three hundred 
