CHAPTER VIII 



THE SEA 



124. The Sea. On looking at a map of the world or at a 

 globe, one is immediately impressed by the predominance 

 of the sea. The whole area of the globe is about 

 196,940,000 square miles, 72% of which is water. The 



THE OCEAN. 

 From a photograph taken in mid-Atlantic. 



larger part of the land is in the northern hemisphere, and 

 of the water in the southern hemisphere. A compara- 

 tively small land area extends below 40 south latitude, 

 about the latitude of Philadelphia in the northern hemi- 



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