CONTENTS. 11 



Pack 



sailed — ^Award of Paris Geographical Society— The Jeannette 

 Expedition— Return of the survivors — Polar Stations — The Greely 

 Expedition— Retreat to Cape Sabine— Starvation— The Relief 

 Squadron—Home again 43—71 



CHAPTER III. 



ICEBERGS. 



Icebergs among the wonders of the ocean world — Grand and im- 

 posing — Imitating every style of architecture — Differ in color — 

 Strange and sudden formations — Many of great height — Origin — 

 Greenland — Glaciers — Their immense length — Birthplaces of ice- 

 bergs — Moved by powerful currents — Dangers from icebergs on 

 their floating voyages — Terror excited by them among the early 

 navigators — Awful sublimity of the floating ice mountains — Hair- 

 breadth escape — Supposed loss of the "President" and other 

 vessels from collisions with icebergs — Danger of mooring vessels 

 to icebergs — A picnic on an iceberg — The " Resolute" exploring 

 ship — Formation and destruction of ice — Beautiful provision of 

 Nature , . . 72 82 



CHAPTER IV. 

 LIFE IN THE OCEAN. 



Sublime ideas of the infinite — Mystery of life — Two great powers — 

 Death is the foster mother of life — Life maintains life — Exuber- 

 ance of life — The ocean in its profound est depths — Sea influ- 

 ences — Seashore deposits — Source of greath wealth — Unity and 

 diversity 83—87 



CHAPTER Y. 



MINUTE ANIMAL LIFE. 



Vastness of organic life in the ocean — Food to the larger marine 

 animals — Abundance in the Northern seas — Sea nettles — They 

 color the waters — Microscopic determinations — A naturalist's 

 calculation of the number of animalculae — Animals in a drop of 

 water— Illustrates the immensity of creation — Seaweeds — Ani- 

 mated worlds — Minute creation governed by the same laws as 

 larger — Jelly-fish — Abound in the South Atlantic — Curious 

 shapes — Sea-worms — Sea-mouse — Its beautiful color — Curious 



