Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 214
Pearly Nautilus, sup-posed by seamen to be furnished with a mem-brane which serves as a sail. There are fourspecies to be seen living. Here too the beauti-ful Natica, a species of marine gastropod, withits glassy shell regularly streaked with yel-low bars, is found in its sandy hiding-place.Here… … On one of the countless islands of the South of-pearl comes here almost entirely from Bor-Pacific, while gathering shells, not noticing that neo and the Southwestern Archipelago. Thethe sun had nearly set and deep shadows were minute flash shells of Ceylon, scarcely largercreeping out from the…
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