4 THE OCEAN 



beneath the waves and not one-tenth enough 

 credit has been given, not a tithe of the de- 

 served honours bestowed upon the scientists 

 who have devoted their lives to this work. 

 Patiently, quietly, painstakingly these men 

 have laboured year in and year out to solve 

 in some measure the mysteries of the ocean 

 depths and without remuneration, without 

 recompense and with no hope of reward they 

 have given their knowledge and their discov- 

 eries to an unappreciative world. To such 

 men as Darwin, Agassiz, Verrill, Dana, the 

 Prince of Monaco and many lesser authorities 

 we owe a debt which can never be repaid, for 

 through their labours and researches we have 

 learned all we know of the mysterious world 

 beneath the sea and of its more mysterious life- 

 From the work carried on by scientists and 

 oceanographers we know much of the charac- 

 ter and formation of the ocean's bed. We 

 know that beneath the level surface of the 

 great ocean the face of our planet is as irreg- 

 ular, as rough and as diversified as upon the 

 continents and islands that rise above it. There 

 are submerged plains and valleys, great table- 



