van CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



MARINE CAVES. 



Effects of the Sea on Rocky Shores. — Fingal's Cave. — Beautiful Lines of Sir 

 Walter Scott— The Antro di Nettuno.— The Cave of Hunga.— Legend of its 

 Discovery. — Marine Fountains.— The Skerries. — The Souffleur in Mauritius. — 

 The Buffadero on the Mexican Coast ..... Page 45 



CHAPTER V. 



OCEAN CURRENTS. 



Causes of the Oceanic Currents. — The Equatorial Stream. — The Gulf Stream. — 

 Its Influence on the Climate of the West European Coasts. — The Cold Peruvian 

 Stream. — The Japanese Stream . . . . . .54 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE AERIAL AND TERRESTRIAL MIGRATIONS OE THE WATERS. 



Movements of the Waters through Evaporation. — Origin of Winds. — Trade-Winds. 

 — Calms. — Monsoons. — Typhoons. — Tornadoes. — Water-Spouts. — The Forma- 

 tion of Atmospherical Precipitations. — Dew. — Its Origin. — Fog. — Clouds. — Rain. 

 — Snow. — Hail. — Sources. — The Quantities of Water which the Rivers pour into 

 the Ocean. — Glaciers and their Progress. — Icebergs. — Erratic Blocks. — Influence 

 of ForestB on the Formation and Retention of Atmospherical Precipitations. — 

 Consequences of their excessive Destruction. — The Power of Man over Climate. 

 — How has it been used as yet ? . . . . . .65 



CHAPTER VII. 



MARINE CONSTRUCTIONS. 



Lighthouses. — The Eddystone. — Winstanley's Lighthouse, 1696. — The Storm ot 

 1703. — Rudyerd's Lighthouse destroyed by Fire in 1755. — Singular Death of ' 

 one of the Lighthouse Men. — Anecdote of Louis XIV. — Smeaton. — Bell Rock 

 Lighthouse. — History of the Erection of Skerryvore Lighthouse. — Illumination 

 of Lighthouses. — The Breakwater at Cherbourg. — Liverpool Docks. — The 

 Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits. — The Sub-oceanic Mine of Botallack. 80 



PART II. 

 THE INHABITANTS OF THE SEA. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE CETACEANS. 



General Remarks on the Organisation of the Cetaceans.— The Large Greenland 



Whale.— His Food and Enemies. — The Fin-Back or Rorqual — The Antarctic 



Whale. — The Sperm Whale. — The Unicorn Fish. — The Dolphin. — Truth and 



Fable. — The Porpoise. — The Grampus History of the Whale Fishery . 95 



