Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 315
of nature, set-ting aside all preconceived notions of how thingsought to be. Only by patient observation cantrue knowledge be gained. Wandering along the reef, they camesuddenly to the five-foot chan-nel through which Long Johnhad so skillfully carried themthe day before. Here thebeauty of the… … It is a fish within a fish, he explained,—aboarder in the trepang, and, as you will see, short-lived out of its proper sphere. The curious animal was a perfectly formed five-inch fish, so transparent that its internal organscould be seen; but evidently out of its element;for, even as the Professor…
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