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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. NEW visitor arrived at the Abbey, in the person of Mr Asterias, the ichthyologist. This gentleman had passed his life in seeking the living wonders of the deep through the four quarters of the world; he had a cabinet of stuffed and dried fishes, of shells, sea-weeds, corals, and madrepores, that was the admiration and envy of the Royal Society. He had penetrated into the watery den of the Sepia Octopus, disturbed the conjugal happiness of that turtledove of the ocean, and come off victorious in a sanguiriary conflict. He had been becalmed in the tropical seas, and had watched, in eager expectation, though imhappily always in vain, to see the colossal pdypus rise from the water, and entwine its enormous arms round the masts and the rigging. He maintained the origin of all things from water, and insisted that the polypodes were the first of animated things, and tHaF, fr6rn their round bodies and many-shooting arms, the Hindoos had taken their gods, the most ancient of deities. But the chief object of his ambition, the end and aim of his researches, was to discover a, triton and a mermaid, the existence of which he most potently and implicitly believed, and was prepared to demonstrate, at priori, a posteriori, d fortiori, synthetically and analytically, syllogistic- ally and inductively, by arguments deduced both from acknowledged facts and plausible hypotheses. A report that a mermaid had been seen sleeking her soft alluring locks on the sea-coast of Lincolnshire, had brought him in great haste from London, to pay a long-promised and often-postponed visit to his old acquaintance, Mr Glowry. Mr Asterias was accompanied by his son, to whom he had given the name of Aquarius?flattering himself that he would, in the process of time, become a constellation among the st..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217519014 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217519016 |
| Weight | 0.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $7.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 74 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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