Show cabot UP LY THE TIDE WHEN 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 is water THE starfish ia covered with a kind of armor over eleven thousand pieces have been counted in ome coat of mail worn by a small creature of this species THE whole bottom of the ocean is covered with a layer of calcareous ooze mingled with the skeletons and other animal remains of its inhabit-ants IF it were not for the salts of the ocean the whole sea would soon be-come a mass of corruption owing io the decay of the organic matter it con-tains THE bulldog sounding machine contains a couple of scoops closing against each other and bringing up a considerable quantity of soil ffrroonn the bottom |