Lanterna Rally

Author: George Kearley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781330114643

Excerpt from Links in the Chain: Or Popular Chapters on the Curiosities of Animal Life, by George Kearley With Illustrations by F. W. Keyl If Dr. Livingstone, in the course of his African explorations, were to light upon some such nation of mannikins as that discovered at Lilliput by Mr. Lemuel Gulliver of famous memory, the announcement of the fact could hardly occasion greater surprise and astonishment than was felt by the philosophers of the last century at the remarkable disclosures of the microscope, with respect to the countless multitudes of minute forms of organic life which, unseen by our feeble powers of vision, people the waters of the earth, and swarm around us on every side. The microscope has here revealed the existence of a new world of living beings, before unknown and unsuspected. It has shown that the water of our roadside ditches, and stagnant pools, of our lakes and streams, and of the sea itself, teems with various races of microscopic beings, many of which arc so inconceivably minute, and abound in such amazing profusion, that thousands of them may often be detected in a drop of fluid taken up on the point of a pencil, while, within tho narrow dimensions of a lady's thimble, we might easily collect together a number far exceeding that of the entire human population of the globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.