INDEX. 
FEA 
Feather-star, the rosy, 330 
Fernandez, Juan, his discoveries, 473 
Fierasfer, 340 
File-fish, 232 
Fin-crab, spotted, 252 
Fin-fish, or northern rorqual, 101 
Fingal’s Cave, 45-48 
— — popular belief as to its workman- 
ship, 48 
— — Sir W. Scott’s description of it, 48 
Fire, sea of, 434 
Fish, consumption of, in London, 237 
note 
Fish River, Great, course of, traced, 507 
Fishes, general remarks on, 186 
— their locomotive organs, 187 
— Cuvier’s classification of fishes, 188 
note 
— fins, 188 
— air-bladder, 189 
— skin of, 190 
— beauty of tropical, 191 
— gills of, 191 
— circulation of the blood of, 191, 192 
— climbing, 193 
— parental affection of, 194 
— organs of sense, 196 
— offensive weapons of, 198 
— numerous enemies of, 207 
— luminous, 422 
Flamingoes, 142 
Flat-fishes, 235 
Florence, its commercial grandeur, 450 
Flounder, 238 
Flying-fishes, 156, 205, 224 
Flying-gurnard, 206 
Foraminifera, 378 
— their immense numbers, 378 
— simplicity of their structure, 389 
— various forms of Foraminifera, 381 
Forbes, Professor Edward, on the four 
zones of marine life on the British 
coasts, 408 
Forests, influence of, on the formation 
and retention of atmospherical pre- 
cipitations, 76 
— formation of, 77 
— influence of, on climates, 78 
Franklin, Sir John, his arctic voyages, 
501 
— his last voyage, 508 
Fresnel, his improvements in marine 
illumination, 90 
Frigate-bird, 155 
Frobisher, Martin, his maritime disco- 
veries, 475 
Frog-fish, 193, 194 
Fuei, 392 
— fucus banks, or floating meadows, of 
the Atlantic 397, 
Fulmay, the, 195 
517 
GUR 
ADES, Pheenician town of, 444 
Gaéta, maritime trade of, 451 
Gama, Vasco de, doubles the Cape of 
Good Hope, 462 
Gannet, or soland goose, 156 
Gar-fish, 223 
Garry, Cape, discovery of, 503 
Gasteropods, 282 
— respiratory apparatus, 283 
— growth of their shells, 289 
— mode of locomotion, 289 
— their food, 294 
— organs of sense, 295 
— their enemies, 297 
— their use to man, 296 
Genoa, maritime grandeur of, 450 
Geographical distribution of marine life, 
405 
Georgia, South, discovery of, 490 
Germany, its climate at the time of 
the Romans and at the present time, 
78 
Glaciers, formation and dissolution of, 
75 
— the Aar glacier, 75 
— of Greenland and Spitzbergen, 76 
Glaucus, 283 
Globe-fish, 232 
Goa, Portuguese settlement of, 462 
Goby, the black, 194 
Goniaster, 335, 336 
Good Hope, Cape of, discovery of, 457 
— — first doubled, 462 
Goodwin Sands, 9 
Goose, sea, various kinds of, 146 
Gorgonid, 365 
Grampus, the, 108 
— — anecdote of one, 109 
Grass wrack (Zostera marina), 391 
Great erab, 251 
Grebes, the, 150 
Greenland, depression of the coast of, 
10 
— olive colour of the water of the 
Greenland seas, 20 
— glaciers of, 76 
— whale-fishery of, 110 
— discovery of, 457 
Grijalva, his maritime discoveries, 461 
Guano of the Chincha Islands, 169 
— statistics of the trade of, 170 
Guillemot, black, 165, 167 
Guinea, New, discovery of, 473 
Gulf Stream, the, 57, 58 
— — its influence on the climate of the 
west European coasts, 59 
Gulls, sea, 157 
Gunnbjorn, his discovery of Greenland, 
457 
Gurnard, 414 
M M 2 
