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LIFE, IN ITS INTERMEDIATE FORMS. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
Crustacea ( Crabs and Shrimps). 
The dark, mysterious world of waters hides many a 
“moving; creature that hath life;” and the solitary pacer 
along the black line of sea-weed that bounds the domains 
of earth and sea, or the curious Paul Pry that is ever and 
anon peering into nooks and holes and crannies in the 
surge-worn rocks, is continually surprised by some strange 
being, some minim of existence it may be, uncouth and 
slow, or lithe and elegant, and rapid as lightning; dull and 
sombre as suits its obscure retreat, or bright and gaily- 
tinted from the solar ray ; some new combination or modi- 
fication of organs ; some novel exhibition of instinct, habit, 
or function; that awakens his admiration, and, if he be 
accustomed to turn from the creature to the Creator, 
elicits the tribute of praise to Him who made all things 
for His own glory. 
The Crustacea pre-eminently make the waters their 
home • they are the aquatic division of that mighty host 
of living things, that range under the title of Articulata. 
The Insects, Spiders, and Mites, counting their armies, as 
they do, by hundreds of thousands, leave, with scarcely an 
exception, the sea untouched; and though a goodly num- 
ber of these are found in the fresh waters of river, lake, 
