10 Life Beneath the Waves. 



intended to instruct as well as to delight, and 

 at once to excite and gratify a thirst for 

 information respecting submarine curiosi- 

 ties. 



For some years past I have kept several 

 small aquaria, the inmates of which I 

 obtain by dredging at sea, or by searching 

 amongst rocks and stones on the shore : the 

 study of my marine captives is a source of 

 unfailing interest and amusement, and I 

 feel sure that those of my readers who have 

 had similar small tanks in their rooms, will 

 agree with me in the assertion that the 

 more one sees and knows of the inhabitants 

 of the ocean, so much the more does one 

 desire further information respecting them. 

 If then such be the feelings excited by 

 aquaria of very limited dimensions and 

 modest pretensions, we may safely conclude 

 that they will be increased a hundredfold 



