But life is there as varioufly formed, as are the herbs of the field. There living 
creatures affume the infinitely diverfified appearances of the vegetable kingdom. 
There (if it be allowable to exprefs it fo) life is needful to fupport the forms of 
vegetation. 
Amongft innumerable maffes of ftones, and pieces of coral rock, covered over 
with arrangements of molt beautiful productions, never did one article come under 
infpeCtion,°but was confeffedly of animal conftruCtion. Did vegetables exift in thefe 
deep places, fome of them muft have been difcovered during a refearch of years. 
Thefe introductory remarks feemed needful to many of the following inveftiga- 
tions ; and have, therefore, been premifed in this and the former Number. There 
is, therefore, given in the plate a reprefentation of fome of the finer fpecies of corals 
and fponges j and the general appearance of the cells of the coral legions, where- 
with the {hells, and {tones, and rocks, in deep water, are almoft wholly over-run- 
Thefe are fomewhat magnified, to allow their various form to be the more diftinCtly 
marked ; but when hereafter feverally examined, the wonders of their ftruCture will 
more amply unfold, and the faculties of their aCtive inhabitants will then alfo come 
under our review. 
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