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Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire—stories of Celzeno and the 
Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition, but 
they were there before. They are the transcripts, types—the arche- 
types are in us and eternal. 
—Names. whose sense we see not, 
Fray us with things that be not. 
Lamb’s fancy ran strong on marine spectra: 
Methought I was upon the ocean billows at some sea-nuptials, rid- 
ing and mounting high with the customary train—of tritons and ner- 
eids gamboling around—sounding their conchs before me, and jollily 
we went Careering over the main, till just where Ino Leucothea should 
have greeted me with a white embrace. 
IMMENSITY OF THE NUMBERS OF FISH. 
Figures of speech and arithmetic fail to show the immensity 
of the numbers which the sea gives us of its finny life. Juvenal 
said that the sea was over-fished. This may have been true of 
the Lavinian shores, as it is of some of our rivers, like the Poto- 
mac, when swept with destructive nets. But Juvenal had not 
seen or heard of the banks of Newfoundland and their opulence 
of fish, nor of the Lofoden Isles with their mountains of piscato- 
rial wealth. The teeming Arctics were unknown to the Roman 
conquerors of the world. Could Juvenal have heard Professor 
Huxley dilate on the cod mountains—one hundred and twenty to 
one hundred and eighty feet in vertical thickness, in and around 
those waters, or the stroms of Norway which affrighted our 
youthful fancy, he would have modified his own poetic idea as 
to over-fishing the sea. 
THE CENSUS OF THE SEA. 
A shoal of codfish one mile in superficial extent contains 120,- 
000,000 fish! Yet not more than half of that number of codfish 
are taken in one year on the coast of Norway. The cod lives 
on herring, hence such a shoal will eat 840,000,000 herring in a 
week! The idea that sea-fisheries are being overworked is al- 
most a joke, when we remember what science reveals. Science 
tells us that our fixed fisheries contain only five per cent. of the 
fish of the sea. 
Nor is this swarming of marine life a marvel, when we know 
