Down to' the depth'of 200 fathoms, where daylight disappears, the eyes of a fish get constantly bigger and bigger. J Beyond thab depth small-eyed forms set in, with long feelers developed to supplement the eyes. Sight, in fact, is here beginning to disappear. In the great abysses the fish are mostly blind, feeling their way about entirely by their sensitive -bodies alone over the native service of rock at the bottom. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9401, 6 January 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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71Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9401, 6 January 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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