518 



INDEX. 



HADDOCK, 215 

 Hag, glutinous, 231 

 Haiti discovered, 459 

 Halibut, 236 



Hanno, the Carthaginian, his voyage,444 

 Harp-shell, 288 



Hartburn, site of the village of, 29 

 Hartog, his maritime discoveries, 480 

 Hassar, land journeyB of the, 194 

 Hawaii, discovery of the island of, 492 

 Hebrides, New, discovery of the, 480, 490 

 Henry, Prince, of Portugal, his mari- 

 time discoveries, 453 

 Hermit-crabs, 254 

 Herrings, 208, 415 

 Herring-crab, 256 

 Herring-fishery, 208 



— history of the, 209 



— statistics of the, 210 

 Herring-gull, 158 



Hervey's Islands, discovery of, 487 



Hindostan, circumnavigation of, 447 



Hippocamp, 129, 234 



Hippopus, 315 



Hoar-frost, causes of, 72 



Hogg, JameB, his experiments with 

 salmon, 219 



Holland, devastations caused by storm- 

 tides on the coast of, 35 



Holland, New, discoveries of, 473 



Cook's discoveries in, 486 



Holothurias, 339 



Homer, his picture of the breaking of 

 the waves against the shore, 27 



Hood's Island, discovery of, 489 



Hooded seal of northern seas, 125 



Huatulco, sea-cave of, 52, 53 



Hudson,Henry, his maritime discoveries, 

 481 



— his unfortunate end, 482 

 Hudson's Bay, discovery of, 481 

 Hump-back whales, 102 

 Hunga, cave of, 49-51 

 Hyaleae, 298 



Hyde, site of the village of, 29 



TANTHINJE, 290 

 X Ice-bear, 100, 134 

 Icebergs, formation of, 76 



— erratic blocks carried away by, 76 

 Iceland, salmon of, 220 



— discovery and colonisation of, 361 

 Ichthyosaurus, 438 



Inachus Keempferi of Japan, 259 

 India, Portuguese discovery in, 462 

 Indian Ocean, spotted corals in the, 21 

 Indus, sudden rising of the spring-tide 



at the mouth of the, 42 

 Inferobranchiata, 284 

 Infusoria, marine, 383 



LIT 

 Insects, marine, 261 

 Isinglass, 216 

 Isis hippuris, 369 

 Ivory of the walrus, 132 



JAMAICA discovered, 459 

 Japanese ocean-stream, the, 63 

 Java, gathering of edible birds'-nest» 



on the south coast of, 399 

 Jelly-fishes, 345 



— their anatomical structure, 345 



— their size and colours, 356 



— their indirect use to man, 357 



— their phosphorescence, 420 



— the, Velella, 353 



— the Portuguese man-of-war, 354 

 John Dory, 415 



KAMTSCHATKA, salmon of, 220 

 Keeling Island, subsidence of the- 

 coast at, 10 

 Kerguelen's Land, discovery of, 491 

 Kilda, St., bird-catching on, 164 

 King-crab, 246 



Kittiwake, or tarrock, the, 158 

 Kraken, the Norwegian, 279 



LABRADOR, discovery of, 459 

 Ladrone Islands, discovery of the r 

 468 

 Lagoon islands, 374 



Darwin's theory of the formation 



of, 375 



how they became habitable for- 



man, 376 

 Lamantins of the Atlantic Ocean, 117 

 Laminaria, region of the great, or tangle- 

 forests, 393 

 Laminariae, 393 

 Lampreys, 230, 231 

 Land-crabs, 250 

 Landscapes, submarine, 21 



— in the Caribbean Sea, 21 



— on the coast of Sicily, 21 

 LaPerouse, hismaritimediscoveries,493' 

 his fate, 493 



Launces, 230 



Le Maire, his maritime discoveries, 480 



Lepralise, 318 



Lessonias, of the Falkland Islands, 396 



Level of the ocean, does it remain un- 



changed,and everywhere the same ? 11 

 Licmophora, or fan-bearer, 402 

 Life, marine, geographical distribution 



of, 405 



— dependence of all created beings- 



upon space and time, 406 



