518 
HAD 
ADDOCK, 215 
Hag. glutinous, 231 
Haiti discovered, 459 
Halibut, 236 
Hanno, the Carthaginian, his voyage,444 
Harp-shell, 288 
Hartburn, site of the village of, 29 
Hartog, his maritime discoveries, 480 
Hassar, land journeys of the, 194 
Hawaii, discovery of the island of, 492 
Hebrides, New, discovery of the, 480, 490 
Henry, Prince, of Portugal, his mari- 
time discoveries, 453 
Hermit-crabs, 254 
Herrings, 208, 415 
Herring-crab, 256 
Herring-fishery, 208 
— history of the, 209 
-— statistics of the, 210 
Herring-gull, 158 
Hervey’s Islands, discovery of, 487 
Hindostan, cireumnavigation of, 447 
Hippocamp, 129, 234 
Hippopus, 315 
Hoar-frost, causes of, 72 
Hogg, James, his experiments 
salmon, 219 
Holland, devastations caused by storm- 
tides on the coast of, 35 
Holland, New, discoveries of, 473 
— — Cook’s discoveries in, 486 
Holothurie, 339 
Homer, his picture of the breaking of 
the waves against the shore, 27 
Hood’s Island, discovery of, 489 
Hooded seal of northern seas, 125 
Huatuleo, sea-cave of, 52, 53 
Hudson, Henry, his maritime discoveries, 
481 
— his unfortunate end, 482 
Hudson’s Bay, discovery of, 481 
Hump-back whales, 102 
Hunga, cave of, 49-51 
Hyalez, 298 
Hyde, site of the village of, 29 
with 
ANTHIN.®, 290 
Ice-bear, 100, 1384 
Icebergs, formation of, 76 
— erratic blocks carried away by, 76 
Iceland, salmon of, 220 
— discovery and colonisation of, 361 
Ichthyosaurus, 438 
Inachus Keempferi of Japan, 259 
India, Portuguese discovery in, 462 
Indian Ocean, spotted corals in the, 21 
Indus, sudden rising of the spring-tide 
at the mouth of the, 42 
Inferobranchiata, 284 
Infusoria, marine, 383 
INDEX. 
LIF 
Insects, marine, 261 
Isinglass, 216 
Isis hippuris, 369 
Ivory of the walrus, 132 
AMAICA discovered, 459 
e) Japanese ocean-stream, the, 63 
Java, gathering of edible birds’-nesta 
on the south coast of, 399 
Jelly-fishes, 345 
— their anatomical structure, 345 
— their size and colours, 356 
— their indirect use to man, 357 
— their phosphorescence, 420 
— the Velella, 353 
— the Portuguese man-of-war, 354 
John Dory, 415 
if AMTSCHATKA, salmon of, 220 
Keeling Island, subsidence of the 
coast at, 10 
Kerguelen’s Land, discovery of, 491 
Kilda, St., bird-catching on, 164 
King-crab, 246 
Kittiwake, or tarrock, the, 158 
' Kraken, the Norwegian, 279 
ABRADOR, discovery of, 459 
Ladrone Islands, discovery of the, 
468 
Lagoon islands, 374 
— — Darwin’s theory of the formation 
of, 375 
— — how they became habitable for 
man, 376 
Lamantins of the Atlantic Ocean, 117 
Laminaria, region of the great, or tangle 
forests, 393 
Laminarie, 393 
Lampreys, 230, 231 
Land-crabs, 250 
Landscapes, submarine, 21 
— in the Caribbean Sea, 21 
— on the coast of Sicily, 21 
La Perouse, his maritime discoveries, 493 
— — his fate, 493 
Launces, 230 
Le Maire, his maritime discoveries, 480 
Lepraliz, 318 
Lessonias, of the Falkland Islands, 396 
Level of the ocean, does it remain un- 
changed,and everywhere the same? 11 
Liemophora, or fan-bearer, 402 
Life, marine, geographical distribution 
of, 405 
— dependence of all created beings 
upon space and time, 406 
