. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. .".G2 THE EOCK SQUID. pxtraonlinaiy-looking animal ciawling tDwards the suil', which Imd only jimi Idt it I had iKivor won one like it under sucli ciicunistances licCore; it tlu'ivrd're aitpr'aivil the more reniarkablo. It was creeping on its eiglit ]vsh, whicli, i'roni their soil and flexible nature, bent considerably under the Aveight of its body, so that it was lilted Ijv the efforts of its tentacles only a small distance from the rocks. It ap
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. .".G2 THE EOCK SQUID. pxtraonlinaiy-looking animal ciawling tDwards the suil', which Imd only jimi Idt it I had iKivor won one like it under sucli ciicunistances licCore; it tlu'ivrd're aitpr'aivil the more reniarkablo. It was creeping on its eiglit ]vsh, whicli, i'roni their soil and flexible nature, bent considerably under the Aveight of its body, so that it was lilted Ijv the efforts of its tentacles only a small distance from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing me, iind made every effort to escape, wliile I mils not much in the humour to endeavour to ca]jture so ugly a creature, wliose appearance pxciteil a feeling of disgust not unmingled with I'ear. 1, "liowever, endeavoured to pieveut ita career by pressing on one of its legs with my foot, l)ut although T madt- use of considerable f(trce for that purpose, its strengtli was so gn^at that it scAcral times ({uicklv liberated that mendjci', in spite of all the ellbrts I could employ in this Avay on wct slippery rocks. I now laid hold of one of the tentacles with my hand, and held it firndy, so that tlii. limb appeared as if it would be torn asunder by our muted strength. 1 soon gave it a powerl'id jerk, wishing to disengage it I'rom the rock to which it clung so forcibly by its suckers, which it effectually resisted. But the moment after, the a]iparcntly enriiucd animal lifted its head, with large eyes projecting from the miildle of its ixxly, and, h'tting go its hold of the rocks, suddenly sprung u/.n my arm, which I had previously bared to my shoulder for the of thiusting it into holes of the rocks to ' sliells, and clung with all its suckers to it witli great power, endeavouring to get beak, which I could now see between the roots of its arms, in a ]iosition (o Idte. A sensation of luaror pervaded my whole frame when 1 fo
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