Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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walks on the ground or on the bottom of beneath this lip, and partially appearing the sea, it is in the latter position. The through the orifice is a beak like that of arms are each furnished with one hundred a parrot, excepting that the short manand twenty pairs of suckingcups, making nearly two thousand in all; by means of these they are able to maintain a powerful grasp upon their prey; indeed the arms may sooner be wrenched off than forced to loose their hold.

If, however, they are thus torn asunder, they are soon replaced by spontaneousgrowth. The arms of this species are esteemed good food by some of the people around the Mediterranean, where it is common.

The eye of the Cuttle-fish is large andexceedingly keensighted; the whole body of the creature is phosphorescent in the dark, and the eyes shine سم

the eyes shine
the eyes shine
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