Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . the body of the par-ent. The descriptions, until recently admitted into the works ofthe most respectable naturalists, of argonauts sailing aboutin prettylittle fleets upon the surface of the water, emiiloying six of theirtentactda as oars, and spreading out two, whicli are broadlj ex-panded for the purpose, assails to catch the breeze,are now regarded as entire-ly fabulous, and indeed arefounded upon an entiremisapprehension of the po-sition of the animal in itsshell, and of the use of thetwo expanded arms or vela(s
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . the body of the par-ent. The descriptions, until recently admitted into the works ofthe most respectable naturalists, of argonauts sailing aboutin prettylittle fleets upon the surface of the water, emiiloying six of theirtentactda as oars, and spreading out two, whicli are broadlj ex-panded for the purpose, assails to catch the breeze,are now regarded as entire-ly fabulous, and indeed arefounded upon an entiremisapprehension of the po-sition of the animal in itsshell, and of the use of thetwo expanded arms or vela(sails). The membranes ofthese arms are extended atthe pleasure of the animal,so as to envelop the shell,and appear to be the secreting organs employed in its species of A. are common in the Mediterranean. Fig. 1 rep-resents one of them as it used to be commonly represented withoars and sails. Fig. 2 represents it as it really exists, with themembranes of the dorsal arms covering the shell. The other armsare cut off. At a in fig. 2, is seen the mass of Fig. 1. •..W^,.
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