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npHIS worm, diftinguiflhed by its peculiarly beautiful tentacula, is evidently 
. , a ^P ec * es of N 0 <11. clafs vi. Plate xxii. page 36. Britilh Zoology, vol. iv, — 
Mr^P*' " ^ a ^ em °o colour, marked with numerous punttures j” — and where 
r - ennant particularly mentions thofe elegant ramifications, which attra&ed fin- 
attent >oo when making the drawing of this plate. 
t j lat ^ eaut1 ^' plumage, (if the ufe of fuch language be allowable, when applied 
anfi 16 10 abltants the deep) which it fpreads forth with fuch varied elegance 
_ com eliuefs of form, has fo much refemblance to the rays or tentacula which 
tUnound the mouths of feveral other marine animals, that there is hardly occafion 
e ^ ^ ate , 10 P ronounCin g them “ the apparatus appointed of nature, and by its 
c 1- Ut 0^, Ior encl °hog the atoms that float along with the tide, and which mull 
t <L l Ute Its nouri lhment and food. Thefe ramifications, this waving foliage, are 
fenfai^ 6 an extenrivc f > Tftem °f aftive net s, animated, and alive to the moft fubtile 
knJ 0 ; S> c ! nftln£ts of the animal pervading their utmoft extremities, with a 
id-, ' 1 f the artlcles moft fhlntary, beft calculated for their fuftenance. The 
Mr pi 0 u eX £ re r 1Ve Wkh refpeft t0 thefe than to the web of the fpi*r, of which 
• Pope has juftly fung the delicacy of touch 
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that, exqnifitely fine. 
Feels thro’ each thread, and lives along the line.” 
wiAdrCiT dil P la r >"“8 f ° lia g'> A, is wholly retraaile , the animal can 
divides Too -, 0mpleKly fro ' 11 v,ew : whcn ,his effected, the waving plumage 
«rck Tr ” S i’ ' ,hich feverally defcen<1 through a " 
lineated Ta & ge " eral a PP eara "«- ■» the worm’s alarmed fate, is de- 
foodVs'tcToTT ° f ; a “ r r % the f “ ufeful “ d drf icate apparatus for drafting its 
protected from ff H “ T f- ‘ *° Ugh a " d thick “ d ia th us 
pofed duriTt? ? 1 " S ' rS ’ “ W Ch 11 might Mh «wife be frequently ex- 
P > during aflaults of enemies or violence of weather-.. 4 y X 
Effay on Man, Epiftle i. ver. 218. 
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