CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGH 



Beauty and Grandeur of the Sea — Commercial Importance — 

 Early Notices of Navigation — Proportion of Sea to Land — Changes 

 in its Outline — Depths of the Ocean — Saltness — Loss by Evapora- 

 tion — Supplied by Rivers — Motions of the Sea — Tides — Currents 

 — The Gulf-Stream — Origin of the Phenomenon — Familiar Illus- 

 tration — Local Currents — Winds — Trade-winds — Monsoons — Land 

 and Sea-Breezes — Waves — Power of God — Man's Insensibility — 

 Reflections . . . . . . . .13 



I. THE SHORES OF BRITAIN. 



Instruction to be gained at Home as well as Abroad — Wisdom in 

 Minutiae of Creation — Habitually Submerged Beetle — Marine Water- 

 fleas — Sea-weeds — Of various Interest — Manufacture of Kelp — Sea 

 and Black Wraak — Knotted Wrack — Sea-lace — Various Provi- 

 sions for securing Buoyancy — Sea-weeds used as Food — Dulse — 

 Tangle — Sea-furbelows — Henware — English Dulse — Laver — Carra- 

 geen Moss — Sea-thong — Peacock's-tail — Delesseria — Landscape — 

 Sea-weeds — Parasitical Sea-weeds — Divine Care for these Produc- 

 tions — Corallines — Uses — Sponge — Animal Flowers — Singular in- 

 stance of Voracity — Aggregate Polypes — Cows'-paps — Corals — Sea- 

 fan — Sea-pen . . . . . . . .35 



II. THE SHORES OF BRITAIN, continued. 



Fisheries — Structure of Fishes — Scales — Fins — Air-bladder — Mo- 

 tion — Spines — Fruitfulness of Fishes — Migrations — The Herring 



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