GREAT NAUTILUS. 
it's delicate flesh may not so easily become the 
prey of every Ichthophagist. 
Goldsmith, who has confounded the Nau- 
tili, with the Paper Nautili, or Argonauts of 
Linnaeus, ventures to say, that "nothing, 
though seemingly more impossible, is more 
certain, than that the Nautilus sometimes 
quits it's shell, and returns to it again." Yet 
he describes the body as divided into as many 
parts as there are chambers, all communicating 
with each other by a long blood-vessel which 
runs from the head to the tail. " The man- 
ner,'' says he, by which it makes a substance 
to appearance as thick as one's wrist, pass 
through forty doors, each of which would 
scarcely admit a ^oose-quill, is not yet disco- 
vered. It is most probable, that it has a power 
of making the substance of one se61:ion of it's 
body remove up into that which is next ; and 
thus, by multiplied removals, it gets free." 
We apprehend, with Da Costa, that this 
Nautilus never navigates it's shell ; and doubt, 
with him, whether even the Paper Nautilus 
ever quits it's shell, and returns to it again. 
