114 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- 
