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Updated: May 22, 2025
It is not only the torpedo or the Gymnotus electricus that can send us messages from the ocean. Whales in the sea can telegraph as well as senators on land, if they will only note the difference between long spoutings and short ones. And they can listen, too.
Then could the Tory, delivering at the right season the Shakesperian 'This England... and Byronic 'The inviolate Island... shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gymnotus electricus.
The factory enjoyed every comfort: the poultry yard throve, far better than at Porto da Lenha; we saw fowls and pigeons, "Manilla" ducks and ducklings, and a fine peacock from Portugal, which seemed to enjoy the change. The fish is not so good as that caught further down, and the natives have a habit of narcotizing it: the Silurus electricus is exceptionally plentiful.
Then could the Tory, delivering at the right season the Shakesperian 'This England . . . and Byronic 'The inviolate Island . . . shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gymnotus electricus.
It is the gymnotus electricus, or electric eel, one of the many curious inhabitants of this region, from two to five, and even eight feet in length. Though really a fish, it resembles the eel, but is stouter in its proportions. It is nearly equal in thickness throughout. It has a rude, depressed, and obtuse head, and a compressed tail.
When we recollect, that the electric fluid itself is actually accumulated and given out voluntarily by the torpedo and the gymnotus electricus, that an electric shock will frequently stimulate into motion a paralytic limb, and lastly that it needs no perceptible tubes to convey it, this opinion seems not without probability; and the singular figure of the brain and nervous system seems well adapted to distribute it over every part of the body.
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