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INDEX. 



FAN 



Ctenophora, 358 

 Cuba discovered, 459 



— circumnavigated for the first time, 



461 

 Curlew, the, 143 

 Currents, ocean, 54 



— causes of, 54, 55 



— the equatorial stream, 56 



— the Gulf Stream, 57 



— influence of the Gulf Stream, 60 



— the cold Peruvian stream, 62 



— the Japanese stream, 63 



— beneficial influence of the ocean 



currents, 64 

 Cushion star-fishes, 335 

 Cuttle-fish, 275 



— ova of the, 278 



Cuvier's classification of fishes, 188 

 Cyclobranchiata, 285 

 Cyclones, causes of, 68 

 Cymospiras, 266 



DAMPIER, his maritime discoveries, 

 483 

 Danen, Gulf of, discovered, 461 

 Darwin's theory of the formation of 



lagoon islands, 375 

 Davis, John, his maritime discoveries, 



476 

 Depth of the sea, 6 



— of the Atlantic, according to Maury, 7 



— American mode of sounding in deep 



water, 6 



— telegraphic plateau between New- 



foundland and Ireland, 7 



— measurement of depth by the rapi- 



dity of tide-wave, 8 

 Dew, formation of, 68 

 Diatomaceae, 402 



— their importance in reference to the 



existence of animal life in high 

 latitudes, 403 

 Diaz, Bartholomew, his discovery of the 



Cape of Good Hope, 476 

 Diazona violacea, 324 

 Diodons, 178 



Diogenes hermit-crab, 254 

 Diphyes, 352 

 Discovery, maritime, progress of, 441. 



See Maritime Discovery 

 Diu, Portuguese settlement of, 462 

 Divers, 150 



Docks of London and Liverpool, 91 

 Dogfish, 200 

 Dolphins, 107 

 Donax, 801 

 Dory, 242 

 Dragon-weever, 204 

 Drake, Sir Francis, his discoveries, 473 

 Duck family, 146 



Dugong, 117 



— skeleton of the, 118 



— female dugong of Ceylon, 119 

 Dunes, formation of, 5 



Dunwich, destruction of the coast at, 30 

 D'Urville, Dumont, his discoveries, 509 

 Dusky Bay, discovery of, 487 

 Dutch, their attempts to discover a 

 North- West passage to India, 474,476 



EARTH-PJND, the giant book of the, 

 432 



— formation of a solid earth-crust by 



cooling, 432 

 Echinus, or sea-urchin, 337 



— mammillated, 338 



— edible, 338 



— dental apparatus of sea-urchins, 339 

 Eddy stone lighthouse, the, 81 



— Winstanle/s structure, 81 



— Rudyerd's, 82 



— Smeaton's, 83 



Edward's Island, Prince, discovery of, 

 491 



— Land, 415 



Eel, the common, 225 



— conger, 228 



— the murry, or mursena, 229 

 Eendragf s Land, discovery of, 480 

 Eider-duck, 146 



Electric eel, 202 



Endeavour Strait, discovery of, 486 

 Enderby Land, discovery of, 509 

 English navigation, retrospective view 

 of, 459 



— attempts to discover the North-West 



passage, 474 



Enteromorphse, 391 



Eolis coronata, 284 



Eozoon canadense, 381 note 



Equatorial ocean-current, 57 



Equinoctial line crossed for the first 

 time, 456 



Erebus, Mount, discovery of, 509 



Escharse, 317 



Espiritu Santo, discovery of the Archi- 

 pelago of, 480, 490 



Esquimaux in his kayak, 120 



Euripus, phenomenon produced by the 

 tides of the, 44 



Europe, length of coast-line of, 4 



Euryale, warted, 333 



Evaporation, movement of the waters 

 through, 65 



Extent of the ocean, 1 



FALKLAND ISLANDS, sea-weeds at, 

 396 

 Fan -bearer, 402, 403 



