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