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stupendons fabric of the nniverse in motion ; and that after all, this 

 mighty agent is only that gentle thing that " vrarms in the sun !" 



895. l^u'suing this subject, the philosophical mariner, as he 

 Probable relation be- gails alonoj and rocords observations for these pin-poses, 



tween the actinism of „"=• , , -iii n , t i , -i 



the sea and its" depth, may lancy — and pcrhaps rightly — that he has traced 

 to the actinometry of the sea one of the physical conditions which, 

 when the depths of the ocean were laid, had its w^eight with the 

 Almighty Architect. 



