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ship perfectly free from them, will often return after 

 a short voyage, with, her bottom below the water- 

 line completely covered. 



We give a representation of a group of these 

 stalked mollusks, as they appear affixed to a piece 

 of timber. This is the Common, or Duck Barnacle. 



CUTTLE-FISH. 



Strange and monstrous as are the forms of many 

 of the creatures that inhabit the deep, there are, 

 perhaps, none more so than those belonging to 

 that division of the class Cephalopoda, called 

 Sepia, or Cuttle-fish. But before we go any further, 

 let us inquire what is meant by a Cephalopod. 

 Our readers have already learned that Casteropod 

 means stomach and foot, and that acephalous means 

 headless; nowhere we have a word which takes a 

 portion of each of the others (cephal — head, and 

 peda, or poda — a foot), consequently ceph-a-lo-po-da 

 is a class of molluscous animals which have their 

 feet, or organs of motion, arranged round the head, 

 something, you may suppose, like the celebrated 

 hero of nursery rhymes, 



" Tom Toddy, all head and no body." 

 Only our bag-shaped Mr. Sepia, with his great, 



