CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Beauty and Grandeur of the Sea — Commercial Importance — 

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

 in its Outline — Depth of the Ocean — Saltness — Loss by Evaporation 

 — Supplied bj- Rivers — ^Motions of the Sea — Tides — Currents — The 

 Gulf-stream — Origin of the Phenomenon — Familiar Illustration — 

 Effect on the Climate of Europe — Local Currents — Winds — Trade- 

 Winds — Monsoons — Land and Sea Breezes — Waves — Power of God 

 — Man's Insensibility — Reflections 1 



I. THE SHORES OF BRITAIN. 



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

 Minutire of Creation — Habitually Submerged Beetle — Marine 

 Water-fleas — Sea- weeds — Of various Interest — jNIanufacture of Kelji 

 — Sea and Black Wrack — Curious Reproductive Organs — Knotted 

 Wrack — Sea-lace — "S.nrious Provisions for securing Buoyancy — Sea 

 weeds used as Food — Mannite — Dulse — Tangle — Sea-furbelows— 

 Henware — English Dulse — Laver— Carrageen Moss — Sea-thong — 

 Peacock's-tail — Delesseria — Landscape of Sea-weods — Parasitical 

 Sea-weeds — Divine Care for these productions — Corallines — Uses — 

 Sponges — Evidences of their Animal Nature — Their Currents — Mode 

 of Growth — Uses to Crabs — Neptune's Cup — Sea Anemones — Their 

 Weapons — Mode of Warfare — Voracity — Beadlet— Dahlia Wartlet 

 -Marine Parterre — Cup Coral — Star Coral— Tree Coral — Cow's 

 Paps — Warty Coral— Sea-fan — Sea-pen 23 



