U4 THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 



stand why many of the sedentary abyssal ani- 

 mals, such as the Glass-Rope-Sponge, are 

 fixed by long stalks, and why many of the 

 wandering abyssal animals, such as crabs and 

 sea-spiders, have very lanky legs, for walking 

 delicately on the treacherous surface 



MONOTONY 



The Deep Sea must be the most monoto- 

 nous place in the world. There is no scenery, 

 but a succession of dreary undulations like 

 those of sand-dunes. Only here and there are 

 there ridges like water-sheds or volcanic cones 

 rising to the surface, perhaps to form the 

 foundations of sunlit coral islands. More- 

 over, everything is so continuous eternal 

 winter, eternal night, eternal silence. What 

 an eerie picture this a deep, dark, cold, 

 calm, silent, monotonous world. 



NO DEPTH-LIMIT TO LIFE 



What of the life of the great deeps? The 

 biggest fact is that there is no " deep " too 

 deep for life. There are more animals at the 

 more moderate depths; there are more ani- 



