IV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



DAVY JONES'S LOCKEE AND ITS TREASURES. 



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Clarence's Dream Davy Jones's Locker Origin of the Term Treasures of the Ocean -Pearl Fishing Mother o' Pearl 

 Formation of Pearls Art and Nature combined The Fisheries The Divers and their modus operandi Dangers 

 of the Trade-Gambling with Oysters Noted Pearls Cleopatra's Costly Draught Scottish Pearls very Valuable- 

 Coral Its Place in Nature The Fisheries -Hard Work and Poor Pay -The Apparatus Used Coral Atolls- 

 Darwin's Investigations Theories and Facts- Characteristics of the Reefs Beauty of the Submarine Forests- 

 Victorious Polyps The Sponge a Marine Animal The Fisheries -Harpooning and Diving Value of Sponges . . 66 



CHAPTER VII. 



DAVY JONES'S LOCKER AND THOSE WHO DIVE INTO IT. 



Operations at the Bottom Brunei and the Thames Tunnel The Diving Dress Suffocation Remarkable Case of 

 Salvage The " Submarine Hydrostat "John Gann of Whitstable Dollar Row Various Anecdotes Combat at 

 the Bottom of the Sea A Mermaid Story Run down by the Queen of Scotland 79 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE OCEAN AND SOME OF ITS PHENOMENA. 



The Saltness of the Sea Its Composition Tons of Silver in the Ocean Currents and their Causes The Great Gulf 

 Stream Its Characteristics A Triumph of Science The Tides The Highest Known Tides and Waves 

 Whirlpools The Maelstrom -A Norwegian Description Edgar Allan Poe and his Story Rescued from the 

 Vortex The " Souffleur" at the Mauri tins The Colour of the Sea Its Causes The Phosphorescence of the Ocean 

 Fields of Silver Principally Caused by Animal Life 90 



CHAPTER IX. 



DAVY JONES'S LOCKER SUBMARINE CABLES. 



The First Channel Cable Now-a-days 50,000 Miles of Submarine Wire A Noble New Englander - The First Idea of the 

 Atlantic Cable Its Practicability admitted Maury's Notes on the Atlantic Bottom Deep Sea Soundings Ooze 

 formed of Myriads of Shells English Co-operation with Field The First Cable of 1857 Paying Out 2,000 Fathoms 

 Down The Cable Parted Bitter Disappointment The Cable Laid and Working Another Failure The Employ- 

 ment of the Great Eastern Stowing Away the Great Wire Rope Departure Another Accident A Traitor on 

 Board Cable Fished up from the Bottom- Failure Inauguration of the 1866 Expedition- Prayer for Success A 

 Lucky Friday Splicing to the Shore Cable -The Start- Each Day's Run Approaching Trinity Bay Success at 

 Last The Old and the New World bound together 98 



CHAPTER X. 



THE OCEAN AND ITS LIVING WONDERS. 



Perfection in Nature's smallest Works A Word on Scientific Classification Protozoa -Blind Life Rhizopoda 

 Foraminifera A Robbery Traced by Science Microscopic Workers Paris Chalk Infusoria The "Sixth Sense of 

 Man "Fathers of Nations-Milne-EdwardsSubmarine Explorations The Salt-water Aquarium-The Compen- 

 sating Balance required Brighton and Sydenham Practical Uses of the Aquarium Medusae : their Beauty A 

 Poet's Description Their General Characteristics Battalions of " Jelly-fish "Polyps A Floating Colony A 

 Marvellous Organism The Graceful Agalma Swimming Apparatus Natural Fishing Lines The " Portuguese 

 Man-of- War "Stinging Powers of the Physalia An Enemy to the Cuttle-fish Ill 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE OCEAN AND ITS LIVING WONDERS (continue^. 



The Madrepores Brain, Mxishroom, and Plantain Coral The Beautiful Sea-anemones ; their Organisation and Habits ; 

 their Insatiable Voracity The Gorgons - Echinodermata The Star-fish Sea Urchins -Wonderful Shell and 

 Spines An Urchin's Prayer The Sea Cucumber -The Trepang, or Holothuria Trepang Fishing Dumont 

 d'Urville's Description The Commerce in this Edible The Molluscs The Teredo, or Ship-worm Their Ravages 

 on the Holland Coast The Retiring Razor-fish The Edible Mussel History of their Cultivation in France -The 

 B9uchots Occasional Danger of Eating Mussels- The Prince of Bivalves The Oyster and its Organisation- 

 Difference in Size American Oysters High Priced in some Cities Quantity Consumed in London Courteous 

 Exchange Roman Estimation of them The " Breedy Creatures" brought from Britain Vitcllius and his 

 Hundred Dozen A Sell : Poor Tyacke The First Man who Ate an Oyster The Fisheries- Destructive Dredging 

 Lake Fusaro and the Oyster Parks Scientific Cultivation in France Success and Profits The Whitstable and 

 other Beds System pursued 122 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE OCEAN AND ITS LIVING WONDERS (continued). 



The Univalves -A Higher Scale of Animal -The Gasteropoda Limpets Used for Basins in the Straits of Magellan- 

 Spiral and Turret Shells -The Cowries -The Mitre Shells -The Purpuras-Tyrian Purple The Whelk The 

 Marine Trumpet The Winged-feet Molluscs The Cephalopodous Molluscs-The Nautilus -Relic of a Noble 

 Family The Pearly Nautilus and its Uses The Cuttle-fish -Michelet's Comments Hugo's Actual Experiences 

 Gilliatt and his Combat A. Grand Description The Devil-Fish The Cuttle-Fish of Science A Brute witt 

 Three Hearts -Actual Examples contrasted with the Kraken A Monster nearly Captured Indian Ink and 

 Sepia- The A rgonauta The Paper Nautilus 16J 



