CHAPTEE Y. 
POLYPIFEBA. 
Where God has placed Wm^B^ 9 bUmWe f “ rtnne " liTCS contentedly in the obscure state 
EnteBING OH tile olaua ] >, ,1,, ■ 
nitely small to enter the world of 'thT ^ domain of the infi- 
the which «* ^fesoria, 
powerful beings. Science has made Z l T^ 3 ln leu gth, are very 
exact knowledge of these singular beings S™®*. m " ivm S us an 
have been dissipated, many errors haveV M 7 scientlfic prejudices 
“ the J are defined in th e C °™ ^ Polypi, 
7 th the Polypet properly so called of “£ eS P 0Ild Ilot only 
f o with the acalephous zoophutes of E "* * BlaMe > but 
know that certain Polypes engender m 7 ^ authors - We now 
and that there exist some mJnsm s aCale P hous zoophytes, 
“*w* * » ta “iT y ?; T t d,ab ^ «• «>* «»* 
thus regarded, the type of the P 1 ‘ P 
of animals, the bodies of which ^ °° m P relieild a great variety 
stances. The principal and smaller If • 7 ^ ” gelat ™n S «nl> 
than two, arc arranged round an V1S1 ° nS ’ t0 the Mmber of more 
central part of the body. These di f* 18 ’ re P reseilt ed by the 
ensemble the app«™„f . ° f ‘1" W » *»™ » their 
eta disk. They „ invesled ° f ? tr "f“ «*« 
aibeeons corpuscles, and even a portion of ° '"‘'“'““s. « 
may be invaded by a calcareous denosif n “ de epest-l,mg twnoB 
to », individual ^ some- 
is ended a Polypi,,, rf wMl 
