26 THE HAEMONIES OF NATURE. 



banks, where at certain seasons legions of fishes deposit their 

 spawn, and invite the persecutions of man. 



The organic life of the ocean would thus be reduced to very 

 narrow limits, if the moon and the sun the former by her 

 attraction, the latter by the unequal action of his warmth upon 

 the surface of the sea in different latitudes did not perpetually 

 agitate its waters ; and this intimate connection between those 

 distant celestial orbs and the sea and its inhabitants cannot but 

 convince every reflecting mind that both derive their origin from 

 the same creative power. 



