U4 THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 



stand why many of the sedentary abyssal ani- 

 mals, such as the Glass-Rope-Sponge, are 

 fixed by long stalks, and why many of the 

 wandering abyssal animals, such as crabs and 

 sea-spiders, have very lanky legs, for walking 

 delicately on the treacherous surface 



MONOTONY 



The Deep Sea must be the most monoto- 

 nous place in the world. There is no scenery, 

 but a succession of dreary undulations like 

 those of sand-dunes. Only here and there are 

 there ridges like water-sheds or volcanic cones 

 rising to the surface, perhaps to form the 

 foundations of sunlit coral islands. More- 

 over, everything is so continuous eternal 

 winter, eternal night, eternal silence. What 

 an eerie picture this a deep, dark, cold, 

 calm, silent, monotonous world. 



NO DEPTH-LIMIT TO LIFE 



What of the life of the great deeps? The 

 biggest fact is that there is no "deep" too 

 deep for life. There are more animals at the 

 more moderate depths; there are more ani- 



