30 8 The Bell-Flower Animal . 
it diftindtly. It feems divided, internally* 
into feveral Apartments, or rather to con¬ 
tain feveral fmaller Sacculi, each of which 
inclofes one of thefe Animals. The Open¬ 
ings at the Tops of thofe Sacculi are but juft 
futRcient to admit the Creature’s Head, and 
a very fmall Part of its Body, to be thruft 
out beyond them, the reft remaining always 
in the Cafe. The Animal can however when 
it pleafes draw itfelf intirely down within the 
Cafe, which is an Afylum to fecure it from 
its Enemies (for it is not unlikely many of 
the larger aquatic Infedts prey upon it) and 
a fafe and agreeable Retirement wherein to 
perform the Fun&ions of Digeftion, Sleep-, 
and the other neceftary Calls of Nature. 
This Cafe it can, I fay, retire into at Plea- 
fure; and it never fails to* do fo when any 
fudden Motion of the Water, or of the Vef- 
fel it is in, difturbs it: as alfo when it has 
feized with its Arms any of the minute In- 
fedls which ferve for its Food. 
The Arms are fet round the Head to the 
Number of forty, having each the Figure 
of a long /i one whofe hooked Ends is 
fattened to the Head ; and all together when 
expanded compofe a Figure iomewhat of a 
Horfe-Jhoe Shape, convex on the Side next 
the Body, but gradually opening and turning 
outwards (fee jig . 19 and 20, Plate XII.) fo 
as to leave a confiderable Area within the 
outer Extremities of the Arms. And when 
thus 
