The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 224
pressure was released. We have brought up thousands ofspecies, said the professor one day, in alecturing mood, but the government cannothope to secure a specimen of each of thevarieties, for they are too many; nor canwe hope ever to capture any one of **the larger kinds. They are so enor-mous that… … beside the marvels unfolded. Nohuman imagination is equal to pic-turing even the least grotesque of thoseforms; we need them actually before usv^\ to appreciate them; and each haul of thenet produces things which seem only out-rageous contortions of nature. There isno sun in those abysms under…
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