Excerpt from On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of Animals and Their History Habits and Instincts, Vol. 2 of 2 These animals have a soft body, protected by a multivalve shell. They are without eyes, or any distinct head; have no powers Of locomo tion, but are fixed to various substances. Their body, which has no articulations, is enveloped in a kind of mantle, and has numerous tenta cular arms, consisting of many joints, fringed on each side, and issuing by pairs from jointed pedicles: their mouth is armed with transverse toothed jaws in pairs, which, like the mandibles of the Crustaceans, are furnished with a feeler; they have a knotty longitudinal Spinal Chord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.