The Ocean and Its Wonders

There is a voice in the waters of the great sea. It calls to man continually. Sometimes it thunders in the tempest, when the waves leap high and strong and the wild winds shriek...

Before proceeding to the consideration of the wonders connected with and contained in the sea, we shall treat of the composition of the sea itself and of its extent, depth, and...

When a man stands on the deck of some tight-built ship, holding on to the weather bulwarks, and gazing with unphilosophic eye through the blinding spray at the fury of the tempe...

THE GULF STREAM--ITS NATURE--CAUSE--ILLUSTRATION--EFFECT OF SMALL POWERS UNITED--ADVENTURES OF A PARTICLE OF WATER--EFFECT OF GULF STREAM ON CLIMATE--ITS COURSE--INFLUENCE ON NA...

THE ATMOSPHERIC OCEAN--ORDER IN ITS FLOW--OFFICES OF THE ATMOSPHERE-- DANGERS LESSENED BY SCIENCE--CURRENTS OF ATMOSPHERE--CAUSE OF WIND--TWO GREAT CURRENTS--DISTURBING INFLUENC...

It is supposed that the "trades" derived their name from the fact of their being favourable to navigation, and, therefore, to trade. They consist of two belts of wind, one on ea...

We turn back now from the atmospheric to the aqueous ocean. Yet so intimate is the connection between the two, that we shall find it impossible to avoid occasional reference to...

There is a tendency on the part of most writers on the subject of Polar Regions--especially compilers--to dwell disproportionately on the gloomy side of the picture; insomuch th...

It is well known that when fresh water becomes so cold that its temperature is 32 degrees of Fahrenheit's scale, it loses its liquid form and becomes ice. A somewhat lower tempe...

It was long a matter of uncertainty as to where and how those immense mountains, that are met with occasionally at sea, were formed. We are now in a position to tell definitely...

In many parts of our coasts we find very striking and enormously large boulder-stones lying on the beach, perfectly isolated, and their edges rounded away like pebbles, as if th...

QUESTION OF AN OPEN SEA ROUND THE POLES--UPPER AND UNDER CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN--CAUSE THEREOF--HABITS OF THE WHALE AS BEARING ON THE QUESTION-- DR. KANE'S DISCOVERY OF AN OPEN S...

Owing to the intensity of the cold in the arctic regions, there are, as we may readily believe, many singular appearances connected with the ocean and the atmosphere, which are...

Reference has elsewhere been made in this volume to the immense amount of animal life that exists in the ocean, not only in the form of fish of all sizes, but in that of animalc...

Many of the large and beautiful islands that stud the Pacific Ocean, like emeralds in a field of blue, are _artificial_; that is to say, they were made by artists--they were act...

In the last chapter we described the manner in which a certain class of islands in the South Seas are formed; in the present we will make a few observations on another class, wh...