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the Thames itself: (34) orin default of
thesesome of the more delicate pond-weeds; such as Callitriche
Potamogeton pusillumandbest of allperhapsthe beautiful Water-
Milfoil (Myriophyllium)whose comb-like leaves are the haunts of
numberless rare and curious animalcules:- these (in themselvesfrom the
transparency of their circulationinteresting microscopic objects) for
oxygen-breeding vegetables; and for animalsthe pickings of any pond;
a minnow or twoan eft; a few of the delicate pond-snails (unless they
devour your plants too rapidly): water-beetlesof activity
inconceivableand that wondrous bug the Notonectawho lies on his
back all dayrowing about his boat-shaped bodywith one long pair of
oarsin search of animalculesand the moment the lights are outturns
head over heelsrights himselfand opening a pair of handsome wings
starts to fly about the dark room in company with his friend the water-
beetleand (I suspect) catch flies; and then slips back demurely into the
Glaucus/or The Wonders of the Shore
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water with the first streak of dawn. But perhaps the most interesting of
all the tribes of the Naiads- (in defaultof courseof those semi-human
nymphs with which our Teutonic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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