CHAPTER XXV. 

 "DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS" 



" With Ships the Sea was sprinkled far and wide." WORDSWORTH. 



" Fair is our lot O goodly is our heritage ! 

 (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth !) 

 For the Lord our God Most High, 

 He hath made the Deep as dry, 

 He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the Earth." 



RUDYARD KIPLING. 



\~\ riTH Whales we have reached the highest 

 class among Ocean creatures. Yet it is 

 impossible to end here. Some few pages must 

 be given to those among men who "go down 

 to the Sea in ships," who "do business in great 

 waters." 



Not that in any sense can Man be reckoned 

 as an inhabitant of the " Mighty Deep." But 

 thousands of men spend the greater part of their 

 lives upon the Deep ; tens of thousands more 

 continually pass and repass over its surface. 



In the beginning of history ships became soon 

 a necessity, partly as a means of going from 

 place to place along the coasts or of travelling 



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