614 



INDEX. 



CAV 



Balani, 244 



Balanus ovularis, 244 



— balanoides, 244 



Balboa, Vasco Nunez de, sketch of him 

 and his discoveries, 464 



Baleen of the whale, 98 



Balleny, his discoveries, 509 



Baltic, depth of the, 8 



Band-worm, the great, 264 



Barentz, William, his maritime disco- 

 veries, 476 



Barnacles, 244 



— their attacks on the whale, 17 

 Barnacle goose, 146 



Barrow's Straits, discovery of, 505 

 Basaltic pillars of Fingal's Cave, 46 

 Bassora, foundation of the town of, 452 

 Bastidas, Boderigo de, his maritime dis- 

 coveries, 461 

 Beachy Head, 5 



Bear, white, said to attack the whale, 

 100 



— organisation of the polar hear, 10 



— attacks Barentz's men, 478 

 Bear Islands, discovery of, 477 

 Behring, his maritime discoveries and 



deaths 484 

 Belemnites, 437 

 Bellrock lighthouse, 28, 86 



height of the waves at the, 28 



in the storm of 1807, 29 



Benin, discovery of, 456 



Bermudas, depth of the sea near the, 7 



Bird Island, discovery of, 490 



Bird's-fbot sea-star, 335 



Birds' -nests, edible, of Java, 399 



— mode of gathering them, 399 



— agar-agar, or artificial birds'-nests, 



402 



Birds of passage, 171 



Birkenhead, the Great Float at, 91 



Biscoe, his discoveries, 509 



Bivalves, or acephalous mollusca. See 

 Acephala 



Black-skimmer, or cut-water, the, 144 



Blocks, erratic, of Greenland and Spitz- 

 bergen, 76 



Bojador, Cape, doubling of, for the first 

 time, 465 



Bonito, the, 223, 224 



Booth, Mr. Felix, 503 



Boothia Felix, discovery of, 503 



Borda, his improvements in marine illu- 

 mination, 90 



Borer, the, 231 



Eotallack, submarine mine, 91 



Botrylli, 324 



Bougainville, his maritime discoveries, 

 483 



Boundaries of the ocean. See Limits of 

 the ocean 



Brachiopods, 315 



Brazils, discovery of the, 460 



Breakwater of Cherbourg, 90 



— of Plymouth, 90 



— moles of Portland, Holyhead, and 



Alderney, 90 



Bream, sea, 415 



Bristol Channel, high tides of the, 38 



marine fauna, 414 



Britannia Tubular Bridge, 91 



Bryozoa, 316 



Buehan, Captain, his arctic discoveries, 

 497 



Buffadero, the marine cave df the, 52 



Bullhead, river, its parental affection, 

 195 



Burgomaster-bird, 159 



Butthorn, the, 335 



Byron, Commodore, his maritime dis- 

 coveries, 483 



CABOT, John and Sebastian, their 

 discoveries, 459 

 Cachalot, or sperm-whale, its organisa- 

 tion, 102-104 



— its food, 104 

 Ca'ing whale, the, 115 

 Calamary, 272 



Caledonia, New, discovery of, 490 



California, discovery of, 472 



Callao, colour of the sea near, 20 



Calling crabs, 250, 251 



Calms, or doldrums, causes of, 67 



Calycophoridse, 352 



Canada acquired by France, 461 



Canary Islands probably known to the 



Phoenicians, 444 

 Cano, Sebastian el, first performs the 



circumnavigation of the globe, 469 

 Cape de Verd Islands, depth of the sea 



near the, 7 

 Capelins, 162 



Capri, ' azure cave ' at, 18, 49 

 Carcinas mamas, metamorphosis of, 258 

 Caribbean Sea, crystalline clearness of 



the, 21 

 C arin aria, 287 



Carrigeen (Chondrus crispus), 399 

 Carteret, his maritime discoveries, 483 

 Cartier, Jacques, voyages of, 461 

 Caryophyllia, 370 

 Cat-fish, or sea-wolf, 415 

 Catalonians, their maritime discoveries. 



452 

 Caves, marine, 45 



— Fingal's Cave, 45-48 



— azure cave of Capri, 18, 49 



— the Antro di Nettuno, 49 



— the Cave of Hunga, 49-51 



— cave of the Skerries, 51 



