VOLUME VI. (or in Nos. 31 to 36.)

ANCIENT HISTORY.

London: JOHN W. PARKER, PUBLISHER, WEST STRAND.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This is one of the rare exceptions to the usual plan resorted to by nature in the formation of a shell, as noticed in the introductory chapter.

[2] The insect from which our most beautiful scarlet dyes are prepared.

[3] See Book of Fishes, p. 51.

[4] The skin or shell with which the animal is covered before transformation.

[5] It has been quaintly said on the subject of depriving the leech of its food, that “Those persons do not consider that blood is the most favourite and salutary nourishment of this extraordinary creature; and I would ask such inconsiderate persons how they would feel themselves, if, immediately after eating a hearty dinner, any person was to give them a violent emetic.”

[6] A kind of sea-weed, (_Fucus natans_.)