SPONGIA. 
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determine wheffim. +1 
°f them, howev . » ^ are ° n ^ 10 one s ^ e or the other. “Several 
Water while in 'a” ^ 0S3e ’ “ ^ viewed with a lens under 
pouring f ov n, 1Vm ^ Slate ’ display vigorous currents constantly 
the water ^ °^ 1 , C ® r *' ain 1 ,rd ’ ces ; and we necessarily infer that 
other channel O " t mus ^ ^ Je cons taiitly taken in through some 
substance is nerfovn+o/™^ |' ,ie masa °P eri , we see that the whole 
by ™ s " 1 ” -* 
the surface hv minute Vmf me &re slen<ier > an d communicate with 
open by ample orifices • f| nUmei01as P ores > and others are wide, and 
W the^fS 22f. j! f °™fe water is admitted, 
that these beings constitute i • , 18 „ n °. t 1:0 denied, however, 
naturalists, a g Mup ?lin ' “ 'P'*' ot mrestigations of modem 
imperfectly known M r ™ and still very 
time, resistant full 0 t air cila and ' hh” T’ ' AW * "■ same 
ments. ^ ltres ™ ri «f «M« urrunge- 
•nee. of which have !«„ ch,r,cter “d t' 0 ™' *“ *“«”* «PPe«r- 
dhereis, for instance, tile Feather gi 1 names rnoreor less singular, 
lyre, the Trumpet, the Distalf the p" 86 ’ l Sl>0,18e ’ tLe Boll, the 
Tjtere are river sponges “■ * nd »«!*”“'■ Glove. 
*]pon 9 ille S , upon which anatomic’ Ta Suct «e the 
V 7 gently been made In relation tol!™' ° bSerVations ha ™ 
under consideration. t0 ^ ^ rou P more immediately 
ospecialiy are they -found 
warm and quiet waters, they attach ’th^ ^ Affecting 
at de P^s ranging from five tl tt ^T ? 7°“ rugged rocks 
Pendent, or sprig, ^ ** « “=*• 
drawn from Nature represents « * f ° tm or Position. Fig. 39 
was fished up in sixty fathoms. ** remarkaUe form of sponge, which 
The sponge is very common in the TW^u 
Urecum Archipelago, and is known vnSl "T"t, ''° Und 
«anne Mnshroonr, the SafloA Nest, and Si fi? ,, “““ ““ 
It is a mass more or less rounded covered ,,-itl “* "fi” 8 ® ° f S . ,ri >- 
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