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Show , I .' HAVE LONG DURATION OF LIFE Salt Water Denizen Attain Immen Age, If Scientific Investigations Art Correct. Water, particularly salt water, -em to eenduce to longevity. There re gigantic muHBel and oysten whose aire 1m assumed to bo coinpar-able coinpar-able only with that of the Cupe Vcrd baobab tree and the big tree of California, Cali-fornia, which live for G.QOO years. Indued, In-dued, there appears no particular reason why mussel should ever d!3. I though U In also true that, oonsldfr- I ln(? the eert of life a niUBtiel leads, there neesoa no particular reason why It ahoald ever have lived. Sea anemone, again, delicate and aenaltlve though they look when we e them in the rock pools, may attain at-tain great age. Sir John Dalycll, a Scottish naturalist, captured In IS28 a sea anemone of the liver-colored sort se eemmon around our shore. Its age was thon estimated at sevin years.. U flqurlahed In EdlnburRh un-til un-til 1S87, aad was just attaining a vigorous vigor-ous and aeber maturity when, from aotne unknown cause, It died London Lon-don Mall. |