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Feather-star, the rosy, 330 

 Fernandez, Juan, his discoveries, 473 

 Fierasfer, 340 

 File-fish, 232 

 Fin-erab, spotted, 252 

 Fin-fish, or northern rorqual, 101 

 Fingal's Cave, 45-48 

 popular belief as to its workman- 

 ship, 48 



Sir W. Seott's description of it, 48 



Fire, sea of, 434 



Fish, consumption of, in London, 237 



note 

 Fish River, Great, course of, traced, 507 

 Fishes, general remarks on, 186 



— their locomotive organs, 187 



— Cuvier's classification of fishes, 188 



note 



— fins, 188 



— air-bladder, 189 



— skin of, 190 



— beauty of tropical, 191 



— gills of, 191 



— circulation of the blood of, 191, 192 



— climbing, 193 



— parental affection of, 194 



— organs of sense, 196 



— offensive weapons of, 198 



— numerous enemies of, 207 



— luminous, 422 

 Flamingoes, 142 

 Flat-fishes, 235 



Florence, its commercial grandeur, 450 

 Flounder, 238 

 Flying-fishes, 156, 205, 224 

 Flying-gurnard, 206 

 Foraminifera, 378 



— their immense numbers, 378 



— simplicity of their structure, 380 



— various forms of Foraminifera, 381 

 Forbes, Professor Edward, on the four 



zones of marine life on the British 

 coasts, 408 

 Forests, influence of, on the formation 

 and retention of atmospherical pre- 

 cipitations, 76 



— formation of, 77 



— influence of, on climates, 78 

 Franklin, Sir John, his arctic voyages, 



501 



— his last voyage, 508 



Frosnel, his improvements in marine 

 illumination, 90 



Etigate-bird, 155 



Frobisher, Martin, his maritime disco- 

 veries, 475 



Frog-fish, 193, 194 



Fuci, 392 



— fucus banks, or floating meadows, of 



tie Atlantic 397, 

 Fulmar, the, 195 



pADES, Phoenician town of, 444 

 VX Gaeta, maritime trade of, 451 

 Gama, Vasco de, doubles the Cape of 



Good Hope, 462 

 Gannet, or soland goose, 156 

 Gar-fish, 223 



Garry, Cape, discovery of, 503 

 Gasteropoda, 282 



— respiratory apparatus, 283 



— growth of their shells, 289 



— mode of locomotion, 289 



— their food, 294 



— organs of sense, 295 



— their enemies, 297 



— their use to man, 296 

 Genoa, maritime grandeur of, 450 

 Geographical distribution of marine life, 



405 

 Georgia, South, discovery of, 490 

 Germany, its climate at the time of 



the Romans and at the present time, 



78 

 Glaciers, formation and dissolution of, 



75 



— the Aar glacier, 75 



— of Greenland and Spitsbergen, 76 

 Glaucus, 283 



Globe-fish, 232 



Goa, Portuguese settlement of, 462 



Goby, the black, 194 



Goniaster, 335, 336 



Good Hope, Cape of, discovery of, 457 



first doubled, 462 



Goodwin Sands, 9 



Goose, sea, various kinds of, 146 



Gorgonidse, 365 



Grampus, the, 108 



anecdote of one, 109 



Grass wrack (Zostera marina), 391 

 Great crab, 251 

 Grebes, the, 150 



Greenland, depression of the coast of, 

 10 



— olive colour of the water of the 



Greenland seas, 20 



— glaciers of, 78 



— whale-fishery of, 110 



— discovery of, 457 



Grijalva, his maritime discoveries, 461 

 Guano of the Chincha Islands, 169 



— statistics of the trade of, 170 

 Guillemot, black, 165, 167 

 Guinea, New, discovery of, 473 

 Gulf Stream, the, 57, 58 



its influence on the climate of the 



west European coasts, 59 

 Gulls, sea, 157 

 Gunnbjorn, his discovery of Greenland, 



457 

 Gurnard, 414 



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