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Title: Shells and sea-life
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Keep, Josiah
Subjects: Shells Shells Mollusks
Publisher: San Francisco : The Whitaker and Ray company (incorporated)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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true that some strange creatures are occa-sionally brought up from great depths, but thecold, black abyss of the deep sea will probablyalways remain a place of mystery, while the shal-low rim of the ocean will be better and betterknown as the years go by and new explorationsare made. Perhaps some of you may help makethem. We may say, then, that the whole shore-line ofCalifornia, Oregon, and Washington is the homeof countless animals. And by shore-line we willinclude all that space which reaches from thespray-splashed rocks on the land side, out towater which is too deep to be readily explored bythe dredge. All sorts of creatures live in this sea-coast re-gion. First, there are the fishes in abundance,ranging in size from the sharks that are as longas a good-sized house, down to the smallest rock-fishes that have just been hatched from the egg. Occasionally a whale comes blowing around, orsome smaller creatures of the same class, like thegrampus and the porpoise. There are seals, with
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THE CREATURES OF THE SEA. • 11 finny hands and fat sides, and round heads withbright eyes, which are ever looking out for fish fortheir Friday dinners — and every day is Friday tothe seaL And we must not forget the birds, for there arethousands of them, — ducks and gulls, and diversand murres, shags and sand-pipers, and heronsand pelicans; birds that dive, birds that swim, andbirds that spend most of their time on the wing.O yes, the sea-coast is a wonderful place for birds,for the waves give them food in abundance. And down in the water and along the beachare all kinds of funny creatures, some with manylegs and some without any. There are crabs andlobsters, shrimps and sand-fleas, barnacles andstarfishes; sea-urchins that cannot run, and sea-cucumbers that are not good for pickles; sea-worms and sea-slugs and sea-pens and sea-haresand sea-anemones, and sea-almost-everything, ex-cept sea-boys and sea-girls, and in summer theyare there too. Besides all these there are hydroids an

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