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which extend twenty feet in length, and arc so elastic and delicate, that they wind tn 8 spiral form like screw, serving at once as anchors, defensive and offensive weapons pneumatic tubes, and feelers. The insect has the colOrs of the rainbow; its crest, which per forms the office of a sail, is intersected with pink and blue veins, trimmed with rosy border, ,and swelIs with the wind, or at the ani- mal's pleasure. The flores contain "a viscOus matter, which has the property of stinging like nettles and produces postules. It acts so strongly. that vessels in which they have been kept for time must he repeatedly washed before they can be used. These f. bres may be cut off without deprvng them or the rest of the insect of the principal of life; and the separation takes place sponta- neously ,wheneyer the glutinous m ,tter comes in contact with hard surface like the sides of a glass globe. The insect however has dan gerous enemies in small dolphins, and medu- ses, againstswhich neither its, nautical skill nor it's poison can defend it. To the natural philosopher. this little animal is a curious ex- empiifcaEion of the principles of hydrosta

 tics ana of hygrometry, as it's bladder is pre- haps among the best substances that can be used for the instruments of the latter science. AO ehe PhySioIOSiSL u laS tue Sau1e import ance as the rest of that class of beings, of which every part is endowed with an uncommonly strong principle of vitality, and which have therefore not improperly been called biota by Doctor Hill. To contemplative mind, the wonderful organization of the Physalis must be new proof that hardly any great effort of human ingenuity, perseverance, courage and skill. is without a duplicate of more as- tonishing workmanship, simplicity and saga city, m beings coming from the hand of the Author of Creation. If navigation is justly deemed the most daring enterprise of man, it may be considered as remedy against pride to know that there exists worm. which an all powerful Providence had at once made navigator and ship, hydros- tic and pneumatic engine. being destitute of mind, and yet one that watches the winds, and rides on the waves.-Bost. Coer.