The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

General Remarks on the Organisation of the Cetaceans.--The Large Greenland Whale.--His Food and Enemies.--The Fin-Back or Rorqual.--The Antarctic Whale.--The Sperm-Whale.--The U...

Extent of the Ocean.--Length of its Coast-Line.--Mural, Rocky, and Flat Coasts.--How deep is the Sea?--Average Depth of the Atlantic Ocean.--The Telegraphic Plateau between Newf...

Maritime Discoveries of the Phœnicians.--Expedition of Hanno.--Circumnavigation of Africa under the Pharaoh Necho.--Colæus of Samos.--Pytheas of Massilia.--Expedition of Nearchu...

Scoresby.--The Arctic Navigators.--Ross.--Parry.--Sufferings of Franklin and his Companions on his Overland Expedition in 1821. --Parry's Sledge-journey to the North Pole.--Sir...

The Molluscs in general.--The Cephalopods.--Dibranchiates and Tetrabranchiates--Arms and Tentacles.--Suckers.--Hooked Acetabula of the Onychoteuthis.--Mandibles.--Ink Bag.--Numb...

General Observations on Fishes.--Their Locomotive Organs.--Tail. --Fins.--Classification of Fishes by Cuvier.--Air-Bladder.--Scales. --Beauty of the Tropical Fishes.--The Gills....

Extent of the Ocean.--Length of its Coast-Line.--Mural, Rocky, and Flat Coasts.--How deep is the Sea?--Average Depth of the Atlantic Ocean.--The Telegraphic Plateau between Newf...

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.--His Discovery of the Pacific, and subsequent Fate.--Ferdinand Magellan.--Sebastian el Cano, the first Circumnavigator of the Globe.--Discoveries of Pizar...

Movements of the Waters through Evaporation.--Origin of Winds.-- Trade-Winds.--Calms.--Monsoons.--Typhoons.--Tornadoes.--Water-Spouts. --The Formation of Atmospherical Precipita...

The Manatees and the Dugongs.--The Seals and the Esquimaux.--King Menelaus in a Seal's Skin.--Barbarous Persecutions of the Seals in Behring's Sea and the Pacific.--Adventures o...

How are they distinguished from the Insects?--Barnacles and Acorn-shells.--Siphonostomata.--Entomostraca.--King-Crab. --Edriophthalmia.--Sandhoppers.--Thoracostraca.--Compound E...

Thread-cells or Urticating Organs.--Sertulariæ.--Campanulariadæ.-- Hydrozoic Acalephæ.--Medusidæ.--Lucernariadæ.--Calycophoridæ.-- The Velella.--The Portuguese Man-of-war.--Anec...

The Saurians of the Past Seas.--The Anatomical Structure of the Turtles.--Their Size.--Their Visits to the Shores.--The Dangers that await their Young.--Turtles on the Brazilian...

Prince Henry of Portugal.--Discovery of Porto Santo and Madeira. --Doubling of Cape Bojador.--Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands. --Bartholomew Diaz.--Vasco de Gama.--Columbus....

Their Vast Numbers.--Strand-Birds.--Artifices of the Sea-Lark to protect its Young.--Migrations of the Strand-Birds.--The Sea-Birds in General.--The Anatidæ.--The Eider Duck.--T...

Maritime Discoveries of the Phœnicians.--Expedition of Hanno. --Circumnavigation of Africa under the Pharaoh Necho.--Colæus of Samos.--Pytheas of Massilia.--Expedition of Nearch...

Lighthouses.--The Eddystone.--Winstanley's Lighthouse, 1696.--The Storm of 1703.--Rudyerd's Lighthouse destroyed by Fire in 1755.-- Singular Death of one of the Lighthouse Men.-...

What had Cook's Predecessors left him to discover?--His first Voyage. --Discovery of the Society Islands, and of the East Coast of New Holland.--His second Voyage.--Discovery of...

The Dependence of all created Beings upon Space and Time.--The Influences which regulate the Distribution of Marine Life.--The four Bathymetrical Zones of Marine Life on the Bri...

The Star-Fishes.--Their Feet or Suckers.--Voracity of the Asterias. --The Rosy Feather-Star.--Brittle and Sand-Stars.--The real Sea-Stars of the British Waters.--The Sea-Urchins...

Description of the Phenomenon.--Devastation of Storm-Floods on Flat Coasts.--What did the Ancients know of the Tides?--Their Fundamental Causes revealed by Kepler and Newton.--D...

The Algæ.--Zostera marina.--The Ulvæ and Enteromorphæ.--The Fuci. --The Laminariæ.--Macrocystis pyrifera.--Description of the Submarine Thickets at Tierra del Fuego.--Nereocysti...

Waves and the Mode of their Formation.--Height and Velocity of Storm-Waves, on the High Seas, according to the Calculations of Scoresby, Arago, Sir James Ross, and Wilkes.--Thei...

General Remarks on the Organisation of the Cetaceans.--The Large Greenland Whale.--His Food and Enemies.--The Fin-Back or Rorqual. --The Antarctic Whale.--The Sperm-Whale.--The...

Effects of the Sea on Rocky Shores.--Fingal's Cave.--Beautiful Lines of Sir Walter Scott.--The Antro di Nettuno.--The Cave of Hunga.-- Legend of its Discovery.--Marine Fountains...

The Giant-Book of the Earth-rind.--The Sea of Fire.--Formation of a solid Earth-crust by cooling.--The Primitive Waters.--First awakening of Life in the Bosom of the Ocean.--The...

The Annelides in general.--The Eunice sanguinea.--Beauty of the Marine Annelides.--The Giant Nemertes.--The Food and Enemies of the Annelides.--The Tubicole Annelides.--The Roti...