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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 832

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In arctic seas microscopic sea-jellies are incon-ceivably abundant, swarming in such countlessmyriads that the water is thick with them. Some-times, for hundreds of square miles, the sea isdeeply colored with them—a sort of animated jelly-soup, on which the giant whale lives and fattens,straining… … MEDUSA, OR SEA-JELLIES. 796 HOW GENERAL WASHINGTON GOT HIS CLOTHES. [October, moderate-sized sea-jellies, the two nearest swim-ming, one toward the left, the other directly down-ward. They swim with a pulsating motion, whichmay be compared with the opening and shuttingof a parasol, usually with…

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