The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 205
resting inits structure.Every slenderarm is coveredwith little vi-brating hairs orpaddles (toosmall to see inthe drawing), which are constantly waving to and fro when thearms are spread out. All the paddles move to-gether, and in such a way that a little whirlpoolis made in the water around each… … MOSS-ANIMALS. Maelstrom, or whirlpool, off the Norway coast,into which boats and men are said to be drawn,and after circling round and round, faster andfaster, and ever approaching the middle, are atlength sucked in and swallowed up by the mightywaves. Well, the whirlpool about each moss-animal is…
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