THE OCEAN AND ITS 

 MYSTERIES 



Chapter I 



THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA 



Did you ever think what a strange sight would 

 be presented if the ocean should be drained 

 away and we could gaze upon its dry bed? 

 It would indeed be a wonderful scene and yet 

 probably not one person in thousands would 

 find the appearance of the vast ocean-bed in 

 the least as he had pictured it in his imagina- 

 tion. 



It is impossible to imagine anything totally 

 different from anything we have ever seen, 

 heard or known. We cannot imagine an ab- 

 solutely new form, a new colour or a new 

 sound, for even in our wildest flights of fancy 

 or our weirdest dreams everything bears some 

 resemblance to some well-known or familiar 

 object. But if we were able to look forth 



