PART 11 



THE 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



THE OCEANIC INHABITANTS 



OF THE 



ARCTIC REGIONS. 



I now proceed to describe the remaining inhabitants of the 

 Arctic Seas, as far as they have been discovered ; and shall 

 therefore commence with pointing out the zoological peculi- 

 arities of those fishes which frequent, generate, and emigrate 

 from the Icy Ocean. Ichthyologists as yet are unacquainted 

 with the number of species residing in this quarter of the 

 mighty deep ; but, as far as I have been able to ascertain, they 

 are as enumerated in the following descriptions, but no doubt 

 succeeding zoologists will discover many more, whose ex- 

 istence in the frozen seas are not even conjectured. 



THE SEA SERPENTS. 



The more we examine the works of creation, the more do we 

 behold with wonder the power of the Deity ; and, having de- 

 scribed some of the most powerful creatures of the tempes- 

 tuous ocean, I have now to call the reader's attention to a 

 few crude zoological observations on two species of animals 

 hitherto unknown to naturalists, and in all probability will 

 long remain so, together with many others ; the existence of 



