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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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But
if
you
have
courage
to
run
out
fifteen
or
twenty
miles
to
the
Diamond,
you
may
find
really
rare
and
valuable
animals.
There
is
a
risk,
of
course,
of
being
blown
over
to
the
coast
of
France,
by
a
change
of
wind;
there
is
a
risk
also
of
not
being
able
to
land
at
night
on
the
inhospitable
Hastings
beach,
and
of
sleeping,
as
best
you
can,
on
board:
but
in
the
long
days
and
settled
fine
weather
of
summer,
the
trip,
in
a
stout
boat,
ought
to
be
a
safe
and
a
pleasant
one.
On
the
Diamond
you
will
find
many,
or
most
of
those
gay
creatures
which
attract
your
eye
in
the
central
row
of
tanks
at
the
Zoological
Gardens:
great
twisted
masses
of
Serpulæ,
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those
white
tubes
of
stone,
from
the
mouth
of
which
protrude
pairs
of
rose-coloured
or
orange
fans,
flashing
in,
quick
as
light,
the
moment
that
your
finger
approaches
them
or
your
shadow
crosses
the
water.
You
will
dredge,
too,
the
twelve-rayed
sun-star
(Solaster
papposa),
with
his
rich
scarlet
armour;
and
more
strange,
and
quite
as
beautiful,
the
bird’s
foot
star
(Palmipes
membranaceus),
which
you
may
see
crawling
by
its
thousand
sucking-feet
in
the
Crystal
Palace
tanks,
a
pentagonal
webbed
bird’s
foot,
of
scarlet
and
orange
shagreen.
With
him,
most
probably,
will
be
a
specimen
of
the
great
purple
heart-urchin
(Spatangus
purpureus),
clothed
in
pale
lilac
horny
spines,
and
other
Echinoderms,
for
which
you
must
consult
Forbes’s
“British
Star-fishes:”
but
perhaps
the
species
among
them
which
will
interest
you
most,
will
be
the
common
brittle-star
(Ophiocoma
rosula),
of
which
a
hundred
or
so,
I
can
promise,
shall
come
up
at
a
single
haul
of
the
dredge,
entwining
their
long
spine-clad
arms
in
a
seemingly
inextricable
confusion
of
“kaleidoscope”
patterns
(thanks
to
Mr.
Gosse
for
the
one
right
epithet),
purple
and
azure,
fawn,
brown,
green,
grey,
white
and
crimson;
as
if
a
whole
bed
of
China-asters
should
have
first
come
to
life,
and
then
gone
mad,
and
fallen
to
fighting.
But
pick
out,
one
by
one,
specimens
from
the
tangled
mass,
and
you
will
agree
that
no
China-aster
is
so
fair
as
this
living
stone-flower
of
the
deep,
with
its
daisy-like
disc,
and
fine
long
prickly
arms,
which
never
cease
their
graceful
serpentine
motion,
and
its
colours
hardly
alike
in
any
two
specimens.
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