The line above shows the natural length.]

The light of this creature, which is very brilliant, appears to issue

from every part of the body; but in another crustaceous animal, found

by Captain Tuckey, in the Gulf of Guinea, the luminous property resided

in the brain, which, when the animal was at rest, resembled a most

brilliant amethyst, about the size of a large pinhead; from this there

started, when it moved, flashes of a brilliant silvery light.

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