which may be the ovaria of the above Buckie.-Mr. Ellis * expend to have found 
fomething of this kind of life belonging to the cyathus marinus. That little fea-c Y 
or e<*g is the ovary of the purpura , or buccinutn ore deprejfo ; for all the cyathi man 
contain the purple dye ; which feems only to have been hitherto extrafted from * 
feminal veffels of die animal. The above ingenious author only, therefore, io 
erred in calling it the ovarium of the peiiwinkle. 
Every remark, though indefinite, drawn from actual obfervation, merits attention 
as leading forward to fuller difeuffions ; for from thefe materials, more regular na ' 
ratives and illuftrations of this part of natural hiftory may be formed. 
III. At e. e. on the alga, is reprefented a glutinous fubftance, as it appears to 
naked eye, feeming only a kind of fpeckled femi-tranfparent jelly : but on being W'J 
magnified is found, an affemblage of fpirited animals, which alternately dart to 
from, and retreat into, regular rows of elaftic cells, in form of living flowers, as 
lineated at E. Whether an ovarium or diftindt fpecies of animal, its extreme 
•nutenefs has yet rendered uncertain. 
IV. The very beautiful coralline, on the point of the leaf at c. and magnified^ 
C. is found in great abundance on the fea-weed of this coaft, under low-water to* 
Mr. Ellis takes notice of it in his EiTay on Corallines, p. 71 j but did not 0 
fpecimens fufficiently alive, to fee the form of the polypes which occupy 1 
elegant abodes. It is only here marked, on account of the repeated opportun 
of admiring the fubtile dexterity and delicate frame of the little animal that T °j s a 
thefe alabafter grottos. Their general appearance is marked at D : — and D. • ^ 
Angle ray of the tentacula highly magnified : but no pencil or defcnption can ^ 
juftice to its amazingly minute and delicate ftrufture. Each tentacula .is t0 
feathered along the edges; and thefe edges move with inconceivable rapidity, . 
at times when the general fyftem of rays remains quietly fpread ; and, while this r 
motion of parts, fo exquifitely formed, baffles conjedture with relpecl to 1 iei n t 
it gives a marvellous expreflion of the infinitely fine particles of which that « 
is compofed, which gives no teeming refiftance to the play of organs fo am* 
minute and delicate. 
In thefe departments of nature, we behold the influence of an original 
which, with virtual power, has diffufed fuch life through the whole fcale o an , 
being; and feel the awe, infpired by folemn refledtion on the great first c 
which has fo varioufly diftributed adtive exiftence throughout the myriads 0* 
which adorn this aftoniffling univerle of things. 
* Effay on Corallines, 87. 
