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INDEX. 



PAT' 



Maritime discovery — continued. 



— Willoughby and Chancellor, 474 



— Martin F robisher, 475 



— Davis, 476 



— Barentz, 476 



— Quires, 480 



— Torres, 480 



— Schouten, Le Maire, and others, 483 



— Tasraan, 480 



— Henry Hudson, and his unfortunate 



end, 481 



— Baffin, 481 



— Dampier, 483 



— Anson, Behring, Byron, Wallis, Car- 



teret, and Bougainville, 483 



— Cook's voyages, 485-492 



— arctic discovery, 496 



Marquesas de Mendoza Islands, dis- 

 covery of the, 473 



Mauritius, sea-cave on the, 52 



Mediterranean Sea, depth of the, 8 



height of the, 12 



temperature of the, 14 



colour of the, 18 



sides of the, 43 



Phoenician trade in the, 443 



decline of trade in the, 33 



resumptionof maritime intercourse 



between the Mediterranean and the 

 Adriatic, 449 



Medusidae, 349, 350 



Melanospermese, or olive-coloured sea- 

 weeds, 392 



Melville Island, discovery of, 500 



Mendana, Alvaro, his discoveries, 473 



Menezes, Don Jorge de, his discoveries, 

 473 



Merganser, 149, 404 



Mexico, discovery of the coast of, 461 



— conquest of, by Cortes, 461, 472 

 Microscopic life of the ocean, 378 

 Mines, submarine, 91 



Mitre shells, 288 

 Mollusca, 270 



— general remarks on, 270 

 Monsoons, north-east, 68 



— south-west, 68 



Moon, influence of the, on the tides, 



446 

 Mother-of-pearl, 313 

 Mullet, grey, 415 

 Murex haustellum, 291 

 Murry, or mursena, 229 

 Mussels, edible, 307 



— history of, 307 



— ' bouchots,' or mussel-parks, 307 

 Myxine, the, 231 



NAPLES, maritime trade of, 449 

 Narw hal, or unicorn-fish, 106 



Nautilus, 280 



— the pearly, 281 



Nearchus, voyage of, 447 



Necho II., Pharaoh, of Egypt, his marr- 



time discoveries, 444 

 Nelson, Horatio, pursuing a polar bear, 



138 

 Neptune's ruffles, 318 

 Nereis, the, 263 

 Nereocystis lutkeana, the, of Norfolk 



Bay and Sitcha, 397 

 Nettuno, Antro di, 49 

 Newfoundland, discovery of, 459 

 Noctiluca miliaris, 419 

 Norfolk, rapid destruction of the cliffs 



of, 29 

 Norfolk Island, discovery of, 490 

 North Sea, depth of the, 8 



colour of the, 1 8 



North-West Passage, attempts of the 



Dutch and English to discover the, 474' 

 Norway, treaty of commerce concluded 



with, 459 

 Nova Zembla, 476, 477 



sufferings of Barentz and his crew 



during a winter at, 478 

 Nudibranchiata, 284 

 Nummulina discoidalis, 378 



OAR- WEEDS, 393 

 Ocean, the primitive, 433 

 Ojeda, discoveries of, 460 

 Oliva hispidula, 290 

 Onychoteuthis, arms and tentacles of a it,. 



274 

 Ophir, the, of the Phoenicians, 445 

 Ophiuridse, or snake-stars, 331 

 Orkney Islands, whirlpools among the, 42- 

 Ormus, taken by the Portuguese, 462 

 Ostend, oyster-parks of, 309 

 Otarian seals, 126 

 Oyster, 307 



— account of the oyster-trade, 308 



— catchers, 143 



— oyster-dust, 310 



— pearl, 311 



PACIFIC OCEAN, depth of the, 7 

 height of the, 12 



discovery of the, 466 



Cook's voyages in, 492 



Paguri, 254 



Pallisei Islands, discovery of the, 489 



Palmas, Cape, colour of the sea near, 20 



Palmyra, 445 



Parrot-fishes, 372 



Parry, Sir John, his arctic discoveries, 



500 

 Patagonia, discovery of, 484 



