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s to form a link between the _Salpa_ and _Pyrosoma_. This species (called _Anchinia_) consists of a number of animalculae of the Salpa form, which, by means of a stalk, are attached to a common body, all of them being turned to the same side. In the course of less than three years, 2400 kinds of animals were either examined, or only collected, consisting of the following classes:-- Species. Mammalia 28 Birds 165 Amphibia 33 Fishes 90 Annulides 40 Crustacea 127 Insects 1400 Arachnides 28 Cephalopodes 20 Gasteropodes 162 Acephali 45 Tunicati 28 Cirrhipedes 21 Echinodermates 60 Acalephi 63 Zoophytes 90 FR. ESCHSCHOLTZ. Dorpat, 7th January, 1828. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. FOOTNOTES: [1] A kind of urn in use throughout all Russia, called a Samowar, or self-boiler. It generally stands in the middle of the tea-table, and is furnished with a large kettle for water, and a space filled with fire to keep it boiling. [2] The baidars, or canoes of the Aleutians, are generally twelve feet long and twenty inches deep, the same breadth in the middle, and pointed at each end. The smaller are suited only for one man, the larger for two or three. The skeleton and the keel are made of very thin deal planks, fastened together with the sinews of the whale, and covered with the skin of the sea-horse cleared of the hair. It has a kind of deck made of this skin, but leaving an aperture for each person the canoe is intended to carry. These sit in the bottom with their legs stretched out, and their bodies rising through the apertures, which are but just large enough to allow them to move and row conveniently. The space between their bodies and the deck being so well fitted with bladders, that no drop of water can enter. These baidars are moved very rapidly by oars, and the Aleutians put to sea with them in all weathers. [3] This applies only to the lower classes; the Yeris are nearly all as large as at Tahaiti. [4] This kind was known to Fabricius, for _Copris Midas_ is a variety of the male, and _Gigas_ is the female. The former has erroneously been deemed a native of America. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2, by Otto von Kotzebue ***
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