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With this crude apparatus placed in front of the lens of the camera, the evanescent beauties of these most delicate creatures were preserved. Other equally beautiful forms of jelly-fish are balloon-shaped. These are Beröe, fitly named after the daughter of the old god Oceanus.

That roar was now as of a thousand heavily laden trains rumbling over hollow bridges, and the professor could only nod his approval when thus aroused from the dangerous fascination. Another minute, and the air-ship was floating towards the rear of the balloon-shaped cloud itself, each second granting the passengers a varying view of the wonder.

A dwarf kind, with a balloon-shaped stem, rarely exceeding 4 in. in height, and divided into a dozen wide ridges with sharp, regular edges, along which are clusters of small, brown spines, set in little tufts of wool, and looking like an array of spiders.

It was not a bird, but had a balloon-shaped body, paddled by five webbed feet. It disappeared among the trees. Joiwind pointed to it, as it went by. "I love that beast, grotesque as it is perhaps all the more for its grotesqueness. But if I had children of my own, would I still love it? Which is best to love two or three, or to love all?"