POLYPES. 
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fflent of the Actinia, as we have already observed, is 
voluntary. 
What a storehouse of life is the vast ocean ! what a 
prodigious Alma Mater ! What varied forms of being are 
borne in her prolific womb, and nourished on her expan- 
sive bosom ! “ This great and wide sea ! wherein are 
things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.” 
— (Ps. civ. 25.) 
