Note 27 — BORING MARINE ANIMALS, AND HUMAN ENGINEERS.
Reading edition
How Brunel took his construction of the Thames Tunnel from observing the bore of the Teredo navalis in the keel of a ship, in 1814, is well known.
[28] "Athenæum," No. 1640.
[29] See also "Life in the Sea," in "Strange Stories of the Animal World," by the author of the present volume. Second Edition. 1868.