. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. FISHES. » UiWii,,,''. iin^uuI'Til ^^'' \^'\'r'' ""! vevtebratcd aninuvls, tlic chief and most obvions upon dly Ir^Hl ' '''^"^'^''''''" ^'^ '"^ «ub-aqueous existence, and their unfitness for life There are many vertebrate animals which pass tlie whole of tlieir lives in the water tHllT. '^'" ' t^'ansferred to the land, such as the whales and the whole of the cetac u n ; o?mt i,: r^- 'v7 ^ '""m^/i"
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. FISHES. » UiWii,,,''. iin^uuI'Til ^^'' \^'\'r'' ""! vevtebratcd aninuvls, tlic chief and most obvions upon dly Ir^Hl ' '''^"^'^''''''" ^'^ '"^ «ub-aqueous existence, and their unfitness for life There are many vertebrate animals which pass tlie whole of tlieir lives in the water tHllT. '^'" ' t^'ansferred to the land, such as the whales and the whole of the cetac u n ; o?mt i,: r^- 'v7 ^ '""m^/i" '''^' 'â P'^Se 521. But these creatures are geneS ^ ncapabJe ot passing their life beneath the waters, as their lungs are formed like tho^e of And Z;"h H ""^ '^'IT T ^ril '' ^'-'f'' atmospheric air at the surface of the vavjf k;a lil V Tn, '^ 'i" :^ â ^'' '^ Y^ y"'' ^â '^"^'' ^'^"^- ^'^'^th would occur from hunger and inability to move about m search of food, and in almost every case a submersion of w hours would drown the longest breathed whale that swims the seas ilio ±ishes on the contrary, are expressly Ibrmed for aquatic existence ⢠and tlie beautifu respiratory organs, which we know by the popula term of "SlL'' 1 ' have I?; '^"'' "^''^ '''â '"PP^^ '"'''"^"* ''y^'"' f-' tl'o\.eration of the bS. Tin" have not the power, as is sometimes imagined, of separating the oxygen, which in its Z^''^Z??!rrn'^''T '' %clrogen,coiiposes the elem\fiit in which they the'water. advantage ot the atmospheric air which is contained iu Any reader who happens to possess a globe with gold-Fish can prove, and doubtless!v has proved the rutli of tiiis assertion. It oiten happens that when the sup vTwatr ^ insuthcient. or the mouth of the vessel too small to permit the air to be absm-bed y 1, water in suthcient volume, the Fish come gasping to the surface, and thS^swim w^^ gaping mouths, sucking
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