522 INDEX. 
ROR 
Rorqual, northern, or fin-fish, 101 
-— its food, 102 
Ross, Sir James, on the height of waves, 
28 
— — — his discoveries, 509 
— — John, his arctic discoveries, 500, 
503 
Rotifera, the, 267 
Rudyerd, Mr., his lighthouse on the 
Eddystone rocks, 82 
AAVEDRA, Alvaro de, his disco- 
veries, 473 
Sabrina Land, discovery of, 509 
Sagittaria, discovery of the island of, 480 
Sail-fluke, 239 
Salangana caves in Java, 399 
Salmon, 217, 324 
— trade, 220 
— salmon-spearing, 219 
— growth of the salmon, 219 
— abundance of salmon, 220 
— introduced into Australia and New 
Zealand, 221 
Salmon-leaps, 218 
Salpze, 325 
— their alternating generations, 327 
Salts of the sea, 12 
Sand-crab, American, 252 
Sand-hopper, 246 
Sand-stars, 332 
Sandwich Land, discovery of, 490 
— Islands, discovery of, 490 
Sardinia, stalactite caves of the island 
of, 49 
Sargasso Sea, the, 397 
Saurians of the past seas, 172, 438 
Scari, or parrot-tishes, 372 
Schouten, his maritime discoveries, 480 
Scissor-bill, 144 
Scoopers, 143 
Seoresby, his arctie voyages, 497 
Scyllea, 283 
Seythe, the, 415 
Sea-anemones, 361 
Sea-bear, 117, 126 
Sea-birds, 128, 142 
— their vast numbers, 142 
Sea-cask, 142 
Sea-cucumbers, 339 
Sea-devil of the Pacific, 241 
Sea-ear, 286, 287 
Sea-elephant, 125 
Sea-fox, 99 
Sea-hare, 284, 295 
Sea-horse, 129, 234 
Sea-lemon, 284 
Sea-lion, 128 
Sea-mat, leaf-like, 316 
Sea-mew, 157 
SME 
Sea-otter, 139 
— chase of the, 139 
Sea-pen, 364 
— its phosphorescence, 120 
Sea-pie, the, 144 
Sea-pinks, 391 
Sea-scurfs, 318 
Sea-snail, purple, 290 
Sea-snakes, 183 
Sea-squirts, 323 
Sea-swallows, 157 
Sea-urchin, 337 
Sea-weeds, 391 
— luminous, 423 
Sea-wolf, 197 
Seals and walruses, 117 
— foud of, 120 
-— statistics of seal-fishery, 121 
— various kinds of, 123 
Seine, sudden rising of the spring-tides 
at the mouth of the, 42 
Seleucide, maritime discoveries of the, 
42 
Seleucus Nicator, his cireumnavigation 
of Hindostan, and discovery of Ta- 
probane, or Ceylon, 447 
Semen Deshnew, the Cossack, his mari- 
time discoveries, 483 
Sepia. See Cuttle-fish 
Serapis, temple of, 11 
Serpents of the seas, 183 
Serpulas, 266 
Sertularia, 347 
Shakspeare’s Cliff, destructive action of 
the sea on, 30 
Sharks, 198 
— Greenland shark, an enemy of the 
whale, 99 
— luminous, 330 
Sheldrake, or burrow duck, 148 
Sheppey, Isle of, rapid decay of the coast 
ot the, 30 
Sherringham, ravages of the sea on the 
coast at, 29 
Shetland Islands, fury of the Atlantic 
waves at the, 28 
Shetland, New South, discovery of, 509 
Ship-worm (teredo), 302 
Shore-crab, 251 
Siberia, Cook’s visits to the coasts of, 
492 
Sicily, submarine landscapes of the coast 
of, 21 
Siphonostomata, 245 
Skerries, cave in the, 51 
Skerryvore lighthouse, 85 
Skimmer, 169 
Sledge-journey, arctic, 502 
Sly, 202 
Smeaton, John, his lighthouse on the 
Eddystone rocks, 83 
