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lated by our sailors — Account forwarded to the admiralty — Fishes 

 of the ribbon family may give rise to what are called sea serpents 

 — Mermaids and women — Icelandic description of a mermaid — 

 P. T. Barnum's famous exhibition — The manatee — The dugong 

 — The stellerus— A mermaid shown in London in 1822 ,360—368 



CHAPTER XXL 



MONSTERS OF THE DEEP— SEA DRAGONS, 



Gigantic reptiles inhabiting the ocean before the deluge — Huge sea 

 lizards — Limestone rocks at Lyme Regis — Dragons in story books 

 — Description of the sea lizard — Head like a crocodile — Numer- 

 ous immense teeth — Enormous eyes — Body like that of a fish — 

 The plesiosaurus — Peculiarities of this huge monster — Head like 

 a lizard — Teeth of a crocodile — Neck of enormous length — Body 

 rounded like that of a marine turtle — Its habits described — The 

 teleosaurus — The great pirate of the ocean — Armed to the teeth 

 — Its enormous jaws — Able to swallow animals as large as an ox 

 — The moesusaurus— -Thought to be a crocodile 369—373 



CHAPTER XXII. 



SUBMARINE SCENERY— ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE. 



The earth has its counterpart in the ocean — Glory of submarine 

 scenery — In the tropics — China seas — Deepest colors of fishes and 

 marine vegetation in the tropical seas — The Indian Ocean — 

 Splendid colors of tropical fishes — Flowers of the ocean — Abun- 

 dance and beauty of marine fauna — Wonders of coral scenery — 

 Coput medusae, or basket fish — Anemones the loveliest ornaments 

 of sea-gardens — Sea anemones a hungry class — Clearness of the 

 "vaters of the red sea — Sea slug and sea cucumber — Waters of 

 the North Sea remarkable for its transparency — Submarine forests 

 and meadows — A sea covered with weeds — Enormous expanse of 

 ihe Atlantic Ocean covered with vegetation — Seaweeds brought 

 from a great depth — The true seaweed — Beauty of smaller varie- 

 ties — Marine plants vie with land -flowers — Seaweeds as food — 

 jj^umerous applications of seaweeds 374 — 391 



