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The Floral King. 133
never come near the shores; therefore their shells
are very difficult to obtain.
‘““The depth of the sea is mostly sterile, and
covered with sand or corals, without much. fish,
creatures or plants, for where no plants exist there
are seldom any worms or fishes, which both live
by such. We have thus not more than one single
plant which can grow in the greatest depths of the
sea, which is called Savgazo, and there is no other
herb so plentiful in the world. This floats on the
water and affixes itself together, so that the sea, at
a long distance off, looks like a green meadow;
under this keep the rarest creatures and shells, or
Testacea plelaica, which, as they gradually increase,
also gradually die away, when their shells fall to the
bottom and fill it. The most of the Testacea in our
mountain referred to, are Petagicia, and must have
increased there where a Savgazo has grown; but
how they have come here in this country, is a more
difficult knot to unravel. The majority assert that
the shells have been brought here at the Great
Flood, and that they thus bear witness to the
changes of this wondrous earth. But those who
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