A WATER-TELESCOPE. 



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We kept near the shore, as the life is more 

 abundant there, and besides, when the water is 

 too deep, it is hard to see what is going on be- 

 neath you. But when we saw the fishing-boats 

 come in with their loads of beautiful silver-sided 

 salmon, we wished that we might have had a 

 telescope that would have shown us the wonders 

 of the deeper sea. 



When we stand on the beach and look out over 

 the waves, we can imagine some of the wonderful 

 things that are going on beneath them, but we 

 cannot really see the great fishes darting here and 

 there in pursuit of their prey, nor observe the 

 broad pearl-oysters resting on the bottom, nor 

 watch the hundreds of beautiful creatures that 

 have their home far away from man's sight. 



And yet we know that they are there, for 

 sometimes the boats let down hooks and dredges 

 and bring us up a few specimens. And so we 



Figure 87. 



