120 OUR HERITAGE THE SEA 



lieth in profoundest peace. Motion there is, cer 

 tainly. As the late Admiral Wharton once finely said, 

 " Of all the myriad tons of water of which the ocean is 

 composed, not one drop is ever at rest ; " but it is 

 gentle, hardly perceptible, a circulation of the waters 

 to which the mobility of the air is furious activity. 

 But of all the multitudinous causes which go to main- 

 tain the beneficent circulation upon which the health 

 of the world depends, none is more important than 

 that of the waves of the surface of the great and 

 wide sea. 



