APPENDIX A 



or traps. The two thousand candle power electric 

 light bulb submerged beside the gangway again proved 

 most successful in attracting an amazing variety of life — 

 from minute larvae and swimming embryos to large jelly- 

 fish, with fish circling slowly through the drift of plankton 

 round the light. 



The general impression of hours and days spent at the 

 bottom of the sea is its fairylike unreality. It is an Alice's 

 Wonderland, where our terrestrial experiences and terms 

 are set at naught. The flowers are worms, and the boulders 

 living creatures; here we weigh but a fraction of what we do 

 on land; here distance is sheer color and the sky is a glory 

 of rippling light. Here we can support ourselves with the 

 crook of our little finger, and when we let go we fall too 

 slowly for injury. 



Until we have found our way to the surface of some other 

 planet, the bottom of the sea will remain the loveliest and 

 strangest place we can imagine. 



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