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vation ; but the animals are more beautiful than 

 their shelly habitation. A living scallop is well 

 worthy of notice, if it were only for the row of 

 eye-like points which are seen peeping out 

 from the very margin of the shell, when the 

 mature holds the valves partially open. Whether 



these brilliant spots are really eyes or not has not 

 been clearly ascertained, but at all events there 

 appears no reason why they should not be eyes ; 

 and so to us eyes they shall be. 



The scallop is capable of changing its position, 

 and does so by the forcible ejection of water 

 from a given point. This mode of progress is 

 analogous to that employed by the larva of the 

 dragon-fly. The title Jacobsea is given to the 

 scallop, from the shrine of St. James (Lat, 



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