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2. von . . . aus. See page 69, note i. 



3. im Grunde genommen, considered fundamentally, in truth. 



Page 119. i. Challengerexpedition. See page 3, line 29. 



Page 121. i. Es kotnmt dazu, dass, moreover. 

 z. Bestimmung, determination (of the species). 



Page 125. i. wenn auch, see page 7, note 2. 

 2. um, a separable prefix of sick umgestalten. 



Page 129. i. hinterindisch, see page 13, note i. 



Page 130. i. Trapani, a seaport in western Sicily. 



2. Girgenti, a town in southwestern Sicily. 



3. Isola di Fernando, Italian for Ferdinand's Island. 



Page 135. i. Nisida, a small island near Naples. 



Page 136. i. Das Land der Phaaken, the land of the Phaaciam. 

 In the Odyssey, a mythical island, Scheria or Phseacia, described as being 

 " far away from plotting neighbors" " afar within the unmeasured deep." 



2. Paul und Virginie, Paul and Virginia, a novel by Bernardin de 

 Saint-Pierre, the scene of which is laid in Mauritius, one of the Mascarene , 

 Islands in the Indian ocean. 



3. Robinsons, Robinson Crusoe. 



Page 138. i. Die Halligen, the halligs ; for a description of the 

 process of their formation, see the Leipzig edition of Walther's " Allge- 

 meine Meereskunde," page 235. 



2. Wattenmeer, De Wadden, the shallow places along the Netherland 

 North Sea coast, from Friesland to Schleswig, between the mainland 

 and the sand islands lying beyond. 



3. Sunderbunds or Sundarbans, "a wilderness region of swamps and 

 islands in the southern part of the deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, 

 south-east of Calcutta." 



4. Nehrungen, see page 52, note 3. 



5. Borkum, Norderney and Wangerog belong to the East Frisian 

 Islands, in the North Sea, off the coast of Hanover. 



6. Amrum, Sylt belong to the North Frisian Islands, in the North Sea, 

 west of Schleswig-Holstein. 



7. Rugen, the largest and most beautiful of the German islands, situated 

 in the Baltic Sea, north of Pomerania, Prussia, to which it belongs. 



8. Hiddenso, Hidden See, an island west of Rugen. 



