514 
BAL 
Balani, 244 
Balanus ovularis, 244 
— balanoides, 244 
Balboa, Vasco Nufiez de, sketch of him 
and his discoveries, 464 
Baleen of the whale, 98 
Balleny, his discoveries, 509 
Baltic, depth of the, 8 
Band-worm, the great, 264 
Barentz, William, his maritime dis¢o- 
veries, 476 
Barnacles, 244 
— their attacks on the whale, 17 
Barnacle goose, 146 
Barrow’s Straits, discovery of, 505 
Basaltic pillars of Fingal’s Cave, 46 
Bassora, foundation of the town of, 452 
Bastidas, Roderigo de, his maritime dis- 
coveries, 461 
Beachy Head, 5 
Bear, white, said to attack the whale, 
100 
— organisation of the polar bear, 10 
— attacks Barentz’s men, 478 
Bear Islands, discovery of, 477 
Behring, his maritime discoveries and 
death, 484 
Belemnites, 437 
Bellrock lighthouse, 28, 86 
— — height of the waves at the, 28 
— — in the storm of 1807, 29 
Benin, discovery of, 456 
Bermudas, depth of the sea near the, 7 
Bird Island, discovery of, 490 
Bird’s-foot sea-star, 335 
Birds’-nests, edible, of Java, 399 
— mode of gathering them, 399 
—-agar-agar, or artificial birds’-nests, 
402 
Birds of passage, 171 
Birkenhead, the Great Float at, 91 
Biscoe, his discoveries, 509 
Bivalves, or acephalous mollusca. See 
Acephala 
Black-skimmer, or cut-water, the, 144 
Blocks, erratic, of Greenland and Spitz- 
bergen, 76 
Bojador, Cape, doubling of, for the first 
time, 455 
Bonito, the, 2238, 224 
Booth, Mr. Felix, 503 
Boothia Felix, discovery of, 503 
Borda, his improvements in marine illu- 
mination, 90 
Borer, the, 231 
Botallack, submarine mine, 91 
Botrylli, 324 
Bougainville, his maritime discoveries, 
483 
Boundaries of the ocean. 
the ocean 
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Brachiopods, 315 
Brazils, discovery of the, 460 
Breakwater of Cherbourg, 90 
— of Plymouth, 90 
— moles of Portland, Holyhead, and 
Alderney, 90 
Bream, sea, 415 
Bristol Channel, high tides of the, 38 + = 
— — marine fauna, 414 
Britannia Tubular Bridge, 91 
Bryozoa, 316 
Buchan, Captain, his arctic discoveries, 
497 
Buffadero, the marine cave of the, 52 
Bullhead, river, its parental affection, 
195 
Burgomaster-bird, 159 
Butthorn, the, 335 
Byron, Commodore, his maritime dis- 
coveries, 483 
ABOT, John and Sebastian, their 
discoveries, 459 
Cachalot, or sperm-whale, its organisa- 
tion, 102-104 
— its food, 104 
Ca’ing whale, the, 115 
Calamary, 272 
Caledonia, New, discovery of, 490 
California, discovery of, 472 
Callao, colour of the sea near, 20 
Calling crabs, 250, 251 
Calms, or doldrums, causes of, 67 
Calycophoride, 352 
Canada acquired by France, 461 
Canary Islands probably known to the 
Pheenicians, 444 
Cano, Sebastian el, first performs the 
circumnayigation of the globe, 469 
Cape de Verd Islands, depth of the sea 
near the, 7 
Capelins, 162 
Capri, ‘azure cave’ at, 18, 49 
Carcinas menas, metamorphosis of, 258 
Caribbean Sea, crystalline clearness of 
the, 21 
Carinaria, 287 
Carrigeen (Chondrus crispus), 399 
Carteret, his maritime discoveries, 483 
Cartier, Jacques, voyages of, 461 
Caryophyllia, 370 
Cat-fish, or sea-wolf, 415 
Catalonians, their maritime discoveries, 
452 
Caves, marine, 45 
— Fingal’s Cave, 45-48 
— azure cave of Capri, 18, 49 
— the Antro di Nettuno, 49 
— the Cave of Hunga, 49-51 
— cave of the Skerries, 51 
