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Natural Hiftory 
An Account of a Ciusrerep Sea-Po.yrE, Sound in 
“the North Seas, wear the Pole. | 
4H Ist thall call after Dr. Linneus’s anne which he has” | 
given the common Polypes, but very properly adapted 
sree RE eLO ang Aydra Marina Artiica, corporibus mucltis oftitentaculis, 
eS sel, OLE). & Jeapo prelongo offeo, Juftentaiis. : 
This very” ‘uncommon Animal is here reprefented i in Mi- | 
ip ie niature, at Fig. @, Plate XXXVII. to give us the clearer 
Pie Conception of its true Figure, as it appears in the Sea. 
Tt was taken by Captain Adrian, of the Britannia, 
while he was on the Whale-Fifhery, in the Summer 1753, 
fticking to his Sounding-line, at the Depth of 236 Fathoms, 
in the Latitude of 79 Degrees North, 80 Miles from the 
Coalt of Greenland. 
The upper Part oe it. -confifts of 23 Bodies of Pelypes, 
united at their Tails to one common Bafe, fo as to form one 
Animal, and appears in its natural Size, with Part of its 
Stem, extending itfelf at Fis. 4. 
Fig. “Bi exprefies it as it was received, after it had been 
- foaked in Water, and the Zemtaculi, or Claws, ftretched out. 
During the Time it was under Examination, it yielded a 
rancid Smell like dried’ Fith, tending to Putrefaétion, and 
looked of a rufty Troncedten 
‘The crofs Se€tion at Fy fhews the Situation of tl 1e feveral — 
different Bodies: Ten occupy the outward Circle, nine the 
next, and four the Centre. 
The Captain at the fame time took another of thee Clu- 
fered Polypes, with above 30 Bodies united together; but 
ee oar met with fome Accident, a little below the 
ec en I uniting 
