The Mighty Deep 



Sea-weeds in abundance are found on shallow 

 shores, near continents and islands ; on the zone 

 between high and low tides ; and on gently- 

 shelving slopes beyond that zone. Floating 

 unattached sea-weeds, of the type which belongs 

 to the Sargasso Sea, may be anywhere, over 

 the deepest depths of the ocean. These, how- 

 ever, are not found living and growing very 

 far beneath the surface : and Ocean's depths 

 are without any kind of vegetable-life, except 

 probably bacteria. 



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