# By the deep sea

Author: Step, Edward, 1855-1931; Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 [Illustrator]; Pearce, W. A. [Illustrator]; Step, Mabel E. [Illustrator]

Genre: Marine biology -- Great Britain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77774

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=By+the+deep+sea+Step&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The sea is the very fountain and reservoir of the life of this globe. As the heart is to man and his fellow vertebrates, so is the ocean to the world. It is the centre of the circulatory system; and that system means the life, the health, the sustenance of the body through which it sends its fluids. With the destruction of the heart the human life must cease; and with the annihilation of the sea, could such a thing be possible, all life on the globe must come to an end. We know it is the source of all our vitalizing showers, of every fertilizing stream, of every commerce-laden river. The sun and the winds distil its waters, and carry the sponge-like clouds over the lands, to drop their mo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-deep-sea-77774/chapters/11/index.md)