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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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The
facts
are;
first
that
water,
being
all
but
incompressible,
is
hardly
any
heavier,
and
just
as
liquid,
at
the
greatest
depth,
than
at
the
surface;
and
that
therefore
animals
can
move
as
freely
in
it
in
deep
as
in
shallow
water;
and
next,
that
as
the
fluids
inside
the
body
of
a
sea
animal
must
be
at
the
same
pressure
as
that
of
the
water
outside
it,
the
two
pressures
must
balance
each
other;
and
the
body,
instead
of
being
crushed
in,
may
be
unconscious
that
it
is
living
under
a
weight
of
two
or
three
miles
of
water.
But
so
it
is;
as
we
gather
our
curiosities
at
low-tide
mark,
or
haul
the
dredge
a
mile
or
two
out
at
sea,
we
may
allow
our
fancy
to
range
freely
out
to
the
westward,
and
down
over
the
subaqueous
cliffs
of
the
hundred-fathom
line,
which
mark
the
old
shore
of
the
British
Isles,
or
rather
of
a
time
when
Britain
and
Ireland
were
part
of
the
continent,
through
water
a
mile,
and
two,
and
three
miles
deep,
into
total
darkness,
and
icy
cold,
and
a
pressure
which,
in
the
open
air,
would
crush
any
known
living
creature
to
a
jelly;
and
be
certain
that
we
shall
find
the
ocean-floor
teeming
everywhere
with
multitudinous
life,
some
of
it
strangely
like,
some
strangely
unlike,
the
creatures
which
we
see
along
the
shore.
Some
strangely
like.
You
may
find,
for
instance,
among
the
sea-weed,
here
and
there,
a
little
black
sea-spider,
a
Nymphon,
who
has
this
peculiarity,
that
possessing
no
body
at
all
to
speak
of,
he
carries
his
needful
stomach
in
long
branches,
packed
inside
his
legs.
The
specimens
which
you
will
find
will
probably
be
half
an
inch
across
the
legs.
An
almost
exactly
similar
Nymphon
has
been
dredged
from
the
depths
of
the
Arctic
and
Antarctic
oceans,
nearly
two
feet
across.
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