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JELLY-FISH. 



is intended to be permanently preserved, it 

 should be immersed in the fluid which is used 

 as a preservative. 



These creatures are often found clinging in 

 great numbers to the bottoms and keels of vessels, 

 sometimes interfering with their speed. Their 

 growth is very rapid, and it has often happened 

 that a ship has started upon a short voyage with- 

 out a single barnacle adhering to her planks, and 

 yet has come back encumbered with a whole 

 army of them. They are often found adhering 

 to pieces of wreck, or to floating spars that are 

 cast upon the shore by the waves. The stalks or 

 tubes of the individual represented in the engrav- 

 ing are not sufficiently long in proportion to the 

 dimensions of the shells themselves, and ought to 

 have been drawn nearly double their length. 



After a gale, especially if the wind sets land- 

 wards, the shores afl'ord a great harvest to the 

 naturalist ; and if the gale and the spring-tides 

 coincide, he inwardly wishes for the hundred 

 eyes of Argus to look after the objects that lie 

 scattered on the shore, and for the hundred arms 

 of Briarseus wherewith to pick them up. Among 

 the strange things that are cast on the shore will 

 be seen many lumps of a jelly-like substance, 

 varying much in size, called popularly by the 



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