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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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The Herring (Clupea harengus) 169 



Herring Fishing 172 



The Pilchard ( Clupea pilchardtis) 173 



The Cod (Morrhiia vulgaris) ... ... ... 176 



The Mackerel (Scomber scombrm) 176 



Fishing for Tunny off the Coast of Provence ... 177 



Fishing for Sword-fish 180 



The Northern Whale (Salina mysticetus) 181 



Cutting up the AVhale 184 



The Great Sea-serpent when first seen from H.M.S. 



Dcedalus To face page 186 



Head of Sea Serpent 189 



On the Sea-shore : Calm and Storm ... ... 192 



Sea Anemones ... ... ... ... 195 



Delesseria ... ... ... ... 2QO 



Laminaria ... ... ... ... 200 



Bladder Wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) ... 



Ulva ... '" 



Pholades in a Block of Gneiss 



Spinous Cockle (Cardium eduk) 



The Weaver-fish (Trachinus communis) 



The Devil's Frying Pan, Coast of Cornwall. 



To face page 



The Lizard Light ... ... ... 2Q8 



The Loggan Stone ... ... ... 208 



The Botallack Mine, Cornwall 209 



Looe 212 



View on the Cornish Coast ... 217 



Rocket Line Thrown to a Wreck near Pen- 



zance 220 



Life-boat Going to a Wreck on Doom Bar, Pad- 

 stow 221 



Wreck of a Steamship near Lizard Point 224 



The Kimig Wilhelm entering Portsmouth Harbour 



after the Collision ... To face page 239 



Southampton ... ... ... ... ... 225 



H.M.S. Eurydice on her Beam-ends just after the 



Squall 228 



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Brighton 



Discovering the Samphire on the Rock 

 The last of the Grosser Knrf first 

 Dover .. 



The Gulf Stream Light Vessel on the Goodwin 



Sands ... 

 Harwich 

 Yarmouth 

 Scarborough ... 

 Captain Boyton attacked by a Dog-fish in the 



Straits of Messina To face page 



Early Swimming 



Diving... 



Captain Webb. (From a Photograph by Albert 



Fr addle) 



Captain Webb's Arrival at Calais ... 

 The Home for Aged Merchant Seamen, Belvedere, 



Kent ... 



Greenwich Hospital ... 

 Greenwich Pensioners 

 The Great Equatorial Telescope in the Dome, 



Greenwich Observator y 

 Collision of the Bywell Castle and the Princess 



Alice ... 



Trinity House, London ... 



The Siren Fog-horn, for Warning Ships off the 



Coast ... ... ... ... To face page 



The Storm ... 



After the Storm 



' ' He sinks into thy depths with bubbling 



groan, 

 Without a grave, unknelled, uncofimed, 



and unknown '' 



"Deep on her side the reeling vessel lies" 

 "At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach, "^ 

 A fisherman stood aghast," ) 



" Three Fishermen sailed away to the West " 



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