520 INDEX. 
MAR 
Maritime discovery—continued. 
— Willoughby and Chancellor, 474 
— Martin Frobisher, 475 
— Davis, 476 
— Barentz, 476 
— Quiros, 480 
— Torres, 480 
— Schouten, Le Maire, and others, 48) 
— Tasman, 480 
— Henry Hudson, and his unfortunate 
end, 481 
— Baffin, 481 
— Dampier, 483 
— Anson, Behring, Byron, Wallis, Car- 
teret, and Bougainville, 483 
— Cook’s voyages, 485-492 
— arctic discovery, 496 
Marquesas de Mendoza Islands, dis- 
covery of the, 473 
Mauritius, sea-cave on the, 52 
Mediterranean Sea, depth of the, 8 
— — height of the, 12 
— — temperature of the, 14 
— — colour of the, 18 
— — sides of the, 43 
— — Pheenician trade in the, 443 
— — decline of trade in the, 33 
— — resumption of maritime intercourse 
between the Mediterranean and the 
Adriatic, 449 
Meduside, 349, 350 
Melanospermez, or olive-coloured sea- 
weeds, 392 
Melville Island, discovery of, 500 
Mendana, Alvaro, his discoveries, 473 
Menezes, Dou Jorge de, his discoveries, 
473 
Merganser, 149, 404 
Mexico, discovery of the coast of, 461 
— conquest of, by Cortes, 461, 472 
Microscopic life of the ocean, 378 
Mines, submarine, 91 
Mitre shells, 288 
Mollusea, 270 
— general remarks on, 270 
Monsoons, north-east, 68 
— south-west, 68 
Moon, influence of the, on the tides, 
446 
Mother-of-pearl, 313 
Mullet, grey, 415 
Murex haustellum, 291 
Murry, or murena, 229 
Mussels, edible, 307 
— history of, 307 
— ‘bouchots, or mussel-parks, 307 
Myxine, the, 231 
APLES, maritime trade of, 449 
Narw hal, or unicorn-fish, 106 
PAT 
Nautilus, 280 
— the pearly, 281 
Nearchus, voyage of, 447 
Necho II., Pharaoh, of Egypt, his mari- 
time discoveries, 444 
Nelson, Horatio, pursuing a polar bear, 
138 
Neptune’s ruffles, 318 
Nereis, the, 263 
Nereocystis lutkeana, the, of Norfolk 
Bay and Sitcha, 397 
Nettuno, Antro di, 49 
Newfoundland, discovery of, 459 
Noctiluca miliaris, 419 
Norfolk, rapid destruction of the cliffs 
of, 29 
Norfolk Island, discovery of, 490 
North Sea, depth of the, 8 
— — colour of the, 18 
North-West Passage, attempts of the 
Dutch and English to discover the, 474 
Norway, treaty of commerce concluded 
with, 459 
Nova Zembla, 476, 477 
— — sufferings of Barentz and his crew 
during a winter at, 478 
Nudibranchiata, 284 
Nummulina discoidalis, 378 
AR-WEEDS, 393 
Ocean, the primitive, 433 
Ojeda, discoveries of, 460 
Oliva hispidula, 290 
Onychoteuthis, arms and tentacles of an, 
274 
Ophir, the, of the Pheenicians, 445 
Ophiurid, or snake-stars, 331 
Orkney Islands, whirlpools among the, 42 
Ormus, taken by the Portuguese, 462 
Ostend, oyster-parks of, 309 
Otarian seals, 126 
Oyster, 307 
—— account of the oyster-trade, 308 
— eatehbers, 143 
— oyster-dust, 310 
— pearl, 311 
| eerie OCEAN, depth of the, 7 
— — height of the, 12 
— — discovery of the, 466 
— — Cook’s voyages in, 492 
Paguri, 254 
Palliser: Islands, discovery of the, 489 
Palmas, Cape, colour of the sea near, 20 
Palmyra, 445 
Parrot-fishes, 372 
Parry, Sir John, his arctic discoveries, 
500 
Patagonia, discovery of, 484 
