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CHAPTER XIV. 



Paok 



NAUTILI THE FLOATING NAVIGATORS OF THE OCEAN. 



The nautilus " the ocean mab " and " fairy of the sea " — The fish de- 

 scribed by Prof. Owen — Real method of its propulsion — The 

 paper nautilus — Its supposed sails — Glaucus a real rover on the 

 ocean — A wonderful builder — Intel lig^ence displayed — Pearly 

 nautilus — Gem of the deep — The argonaut — Sea bladder or Por- 

 tuguese man-of-war — Beauty of its colors — Appear like prismatic 

 shells — Their stinging properties — Specimens of fossil nautili in 

 the British museum — Ammonite — Most beautiful of all fossils — 

 Petrified snakes — The cuttle fish — One of the feasts of fisher- 

 men — Their ink bags — Prodigious size of some species — Mode of 

 fishing with the cuttle fish described by Columbus — Belongs to 

 a period before the flood 196 — 210 



CHAPTER XV. 



MODES OF FISHING IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 

 Use of nets dates from the earliest times — Great improvements of 

 late in the manufacture of nets — Variety of nets used by fisher- 

 men — Description of them — Fishing by electric light — Birds 

 trained to catch fish — Their wonderful sagacity — South Sea 

 Islanders expert fishermen — Singular mode of taking the needle 

 fish — Fishing by the light — Indians' method of taking the candle 

 fish — The white porpoise — Fishing for the sea pike — The tunny 

 fishery — Sturgeon fishery — Conger-eel fishery — Great conger-eel 

 described — Sand-eel fishery — Mackeral fishery — Nets employed — 

 Herring fishery — Modes of fishing — Curing herring — Dog fish — 

 Hake — Pilcherd — Sprats and white bait, and how taken — The 

 Sardine — Cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland — The modern 

 cod sinock — The haddock — The coal fish — Common hake — The 

 turbot — The turtle — Modes of taking them — Crabs — Mode of 

 taking them — Hermit crab — King crab — Prawns and shrimps — 

 Mussels — Mussel farms — Oyster farming — Age at which the 

 oyster is ready for the table — Its best qualities — The enemies of 

 the oyster — Lobsters 211 — 260 



CHAPTER XVI. 



ODDS AND ENDS ABOUT FISHES. 

 Strange and varied characters of fishes — The money of commerce in 

 some countries- -Form of fishes — The tail the great organ of 



