The Animal Life of Our Seashore With Special Reference to the New Jersey Coast
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. I . , . , . , region. It is an erroneous notion, which is shared by many, that the barnacles in any way injure the holds of vessels to which they may be attached. They merely impede navigation through the resistance which their enormous numbers offer to the water, and hence the necessity of keeping vessels clear of their colonies. An effective method of removal, frequently practised by sailing-masters, is to drive a barnacled vessel into fresh water, where the animals soon die and drop off. B...elonging to the same order of animals as the bar- nacles proper are the acorn-shells, those crater-like eminences that are found so abun- dantly encrusting rocks at about high-water mark, and scarcely less abundantly on the surfaces of shells, drift-wood, etc. They have the same general structure as the goose bar- nacle, but are devoid of the stalk or peduncle, and are hence known as ' sessile' barnacles. Where attached to a rock they leave a peculiar circular stamp of lime, which is not infrequently taken for a coral impression.
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