CONTENTS 



Chapter I. The Discovery. — Early fear of the sea — 

 Sea tales — The phantom ship — The maelstrom — Cities 

 under the sea — Fortune seekers — Sea-rovers and sea- 

 lovers — First coasters — Hebrews, Tyrians and Sidonians 

 — Phcenician voyagers — Greek traders — Galleys of Car- 

 thage and Rome— Rise of Islam — Renaissance com- 

 merce — Venice at its height — Skirting the Atlantic — 

 Baltic and Icelandic voyages — The Western Ocean — 

 Columbus and his courage — The new world — Balboa 

 and the Pacific — Magellan and the extent of the sea — 

 The vast Pacific — Exploration and conquest — Geo- 

 graphical limits of the sea — Scientific study of the sea — 

 The original element — Forming of the sea bed — Origin 

 of life in the sea — The organic in the inorganic — Michelet 

 and the evolutionists — Mucus and protoplasm — The un- 

 thinking sea — Life and death — The sea's indifference to 

 man — Wrecks of ships and empires — Repose of the 

 sea — Beauty of the sea 1 



Chapter II. Swirls of the Sea. — Currents in the ocean 

 — Extent of land and water — Sea level — Disturbances 

 of level — Effect of earth's attraction — The swelling sea 

 — The tides — Cause of tides — Attraction of the moon — 

 High and low tides — Spring and neap tides — Western 

 tide wave — How it travels — Its height — Wedged water 



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