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Show A Sea Hor Caught. Among the curiosities gathered at sea by tho mute of tho sc.iooner Moroni, Mo-roni, In port from Port Tampa, wus a specimen of a sea horse, which be found In a bunch of aea grass ho pulled on board while the Murom was In the Gulf of Mexico, says tho Unit more Bun. Tho fish Is about 4 Inche long, and ha a head and neck shaped like those of a horse. Tho nialo kept the flah alive In aoa water for two duya, but It then died. It waa preserved by drying In the aun. Tho aea horao la rarely caught. The mate of the Meroni sulil It wua the first ho had over aeen. Dictionary maker speak of the sen horse as a flah with a head like those of a horse and the hinder parts like thoso of a flah." Tho Nereids woro said to have used sea horses as riding steeds, and Neptune to have employed them for drawing his chariot. Then, la nothing fabulous about the fish that I arrived here. Thero are now two I specimens of the ca horae In llalll- I mure. I |