Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376
normous creature resembles at nighta great comet in the sea. Its folds, margin, and ten-tacles gleam with phosphorescent light that streamsfrom it like a halo, and, as it moves laboriouslyalong by the rising and falling of its disk, the tenta-cles streaming behind, it might almost be mistakenfor… … FLAMINGO RESTING ON THE BACK A SEA-TURTLE. there are giant jelly-fishes — such huge fellows,that their comrades and relations seem entirelydwarfed by them. Such a jelly-fish is the ArcticCyanea, or Cyanea Arctica, which, though com-mon in northern waters, is also occasionally foundoff the…
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