CAST UP BY THE TIDE WUEN taken from the sea and laid on a htone alie medusa will fall off in weight from fifty ounces to five or six grains the most of its weight is water THE starfish is covered with a kind of armor over eleven thousand pieces have been counted in one coat of mail worn by a small creature of aliis species THE bottom of the ocean ib covered with a layer of calcareous ooze mingled the skeletons and other animal remains of its inhabitants IF it were not for the salts of the ocean alie whole sea would soon bel me a mass of corruption owing to the decay of the organic matter it contains tuc bulldog sounding machine contains a couple of scoops closing against each other and bringing up a considerable quantity of soil freja the bottom