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"Under such conditions life must be fearfully 

 monotonous at these great depths. A dreadful dark- 

 ness, a solemn silence, and the only inhabitants two 

 pallid star -fish and three colourless anemones. Pheugh ! 

 it makes me shudder only to think of it." 



" Until the last few years every one would have 

 agreed with you, including even the most accomplished 



STJKStAEIXE EXPLORATIONS OF THE " TALISMAN." Eltsto 

 DISCOVERED AT A DEPTH OF 8,800 FEET. 



naturalists. Judging from what they could see, they 

 had decided that life was impossible at great depths, and 

 had anyone ventured to say the contrary, they would, 

 in a professional and mathematical manner, have proved 

 that he knew nothing about it and was a fool." 



" Ignorant men of knowledge ! But who, then, 

 demonstrated their error?" 



