VUl CONTENTS. 



II. THE SHORES OF BRITAIN, continued. 



I'AOK 



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

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

 Fishery — Singular Stranding of a Shoal — Mackerel — Cod — Cod- 

 pools — Flat-fishes — Crab — Lobster — Shrimp — Prawn — The Crab 

 and the Baillie — Shelled Mollusca — Improperly called Fishes — 

 Interesting Variations of Structure — Cliffs of Orkney — Sea-bird 

 Catching — Perilous Enterprises — Gannets tio 



III. THE ARCTIC SEAS. 



The Spirit of Geographical Discovery peculiar to Modem Times — 

 Commercial Enterprise — Whale Fishing — Majesty of Polar Seas — 

 Coast of Spitzbergen — Fine Contrasts of Hue — Clearness of Atmo- 

 sphere — Deceptive Distance of Land — Architectural Regularity of 

 Rocks — The Three Crowns — Ice — Icebergs — Beauty — Vast Size — 

 Varying Forms — Overturning — Sudden Rupture — Process of Forma- 

 tion — Ice Islands — Disruption of One — Marine Ice — Formation — 

 Ice Fields — Irresistible when in Motion — Perpendicular Ice-needles 

 — Continual Daylight in Summer — Phenomena of Winter — Aurora 

 — Mock Suns — Fog Bow — Looming — Curious Results — Inversion — 

 Ice-blink — Eifectsof Intense Cold — Frost Crystals — Their exceeding 

 Beauty — Snow Stars — Antiseptic Power of Frost — Ship tenanted 

 by a Corpse — Vegetation — Whale — Interesting Peculiarities in its 

 Conformation — ^Whalebone — Arterial Reservoir of Blood — Blow- 

 hole — Windpipe — Eye — Blubber — Reflections on the Goodness of 

 God — ^Vhale Fishery — Accidents — Rorqual — Structure of its Mouth 

 — Enemies of the Whales — Arctic Shark — Thresher — Swordfish — 

 Narwhal — Use of its singular Horn — Torpidity of Mackerel — Sea 

 Blubber — Arctic Clio — "Green Water" — Microscopic Animalcules 

 — Dissecting Crab , 102 



IV. THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



Form of the Atlantic — Its Bays and Inland Seas — Extent of 

 Coast — Sight of Land — Azores — Picturesque Appearance — Peak of 

 Pico — The Atlantis of the Ancients— Islands swallowed up in 

 Modem Times — Submarine Volcano — Stormy Petrels — A Shoal 

 of Dolphins — Their Gambols — Capture of One — Gulf- weed— -Bar- 



