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yellow, and fome fpedmens have a crimfon tinge. Part of a brancli 1 °^c 
magnified at A, where the openings into the cells appear in their rows, ^ 
protedion of bending fpkula: in the more highly magnified part B, is W' 
cavities of the fpines, which open towards the mouth of the cells ; and th- P 
flower, their beautiful inhabitant and fabricator, fpreads forth, as f een 1 w ] : icl’ 
fpedmens. But no delineation can give an idea of the fpirit and fenfibihty 
they exprefs, and ever-varying forms which their activity makes them aflame- 
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Poflefled of capacities that indicate fo much ingenuity and difcernmenb^ ^ 
fcarce poflible to contemplate their energies without wonder ! That adm^^g 
drefs, which ftrikes us with equal delight and furprife, can fcarcely fail to be ^ 
to themfelves : they muft feel the joy of enterprife while they drink in t a ( 
nourifhment, and, in their refearches among the virtues of the all-prolific e ^ 
water, find materials for building their alabafter palace, and ingredients to P ^ ^ 
palifadoes of pearl which defend their own dwellings, and equally provr e ^ 
fafety of their infant offspring, and heirs of all their talents.— InftinCt u 1 ^ ^ 
marvellous attribute of being. To aft with intelligence, and not to know 
governed by principles of the higheft wifdom, and incapable of difcernuig ^ 
to be extremely artful and prudent, yet unconfcious of tne reafon by w ^ a pi' 
ufeful qualities are exerted and attained — is the wonderful predicament o ^ ^gfe 
mated being inferior to man, eminently difclofed in the properties .. a p<l 
beauteous bloffoms, thefe induftrious plants, that, afting with intuitive ip ^ ?e - 
inherent life, adorn the bottom of the deep with charming gardens, where ^ 
renniaf productions need not the influence of fummer flins to unfold t 
from the feverities of winter do they wither or decay. 
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