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Thefe animals can live a whole twelvemonth, 
and perhaps much longer, without any other food 
but what they chance to find difleminated in the 
fea-water. They do not want many motions to 
procure their food, befides firetching out their 
limbs, to receive fiich as comes within 
their reach ; and they remain furrounded with 
mufcles, &c. without laying hold of any of them* 
I have given Anemonies fome of thefe mufcles 
alive, but with their fhells clofed, and about fix 
lines in length. They were fwallowed in that 
fiate ; and 40, 50, and 60 hours after, the fhells 
were thrown up at the mouth empty and perfe&ly 
cleared, even from the fmall tendons which 
connedt the fifh to its fhells. The AnemonieS" 
fwallow and digeft fmall fifh, and bits of larger 
fifh, or of raw meat, when offered to them. When 
they cannot digeft fome of the food, they throw it 
up at the mouth, either whole or partly diffolved 
into 
II paroit que ces animaux peuvent vivre pendant une annee, 
et peut-etre beaucoup plus, fans autre nouriture que celle qu’ila 
trouvent diffeminee dans l’eau de la mer; qu’ils re font pa» 
beaucoup d’autres mouvemens pour s’en procurer d’autre que 
celui d’etendre leurs membres pour recevoir celle qui vient 
d’elle mcme y toucher : car ils reftent environnes de moules, 
&c. fans s’en emparer. Je leur en ai donne de 6 lignes de 
longueur vivantes et fermees, les anemones les ont avalees en cet 
etat, et 40, 50, ou 60 heures apres, elles m’ont rendu par la 
bouche ies deux coquilles vuides et parfaitement nettoyees, 
meme des petits tendons qui attachent le poiffon aux deux co- 
quilles. Elles avalent et digerent des petits poiffons, et des mor- 
ceaux de poiflon ou de viande fraiche que je leur prefente. 
Lorfqu’elles ne peuvent digerer quelque chofe, elles le ren- 
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