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INDEX. 



EOK 

 iRorqual, northern, or fin-fish, 101 

 — its food, 102 

 Ross, Sir James, on the height of waves, 



28 



his discoveries, 509 



John, his arctic discoveries, 500, 



503 

 Rotifera, the, 267 

 Kudyerd, Mr., his lighthouse op the 



Eddystone rocks, 82 



SAAVEDRA, Alvaro de, his disco- 

 veries, 473 

 Sabrina Land, discovery of, 509 

 Sagittaria, discovery of the island of, 480 

 Sail-fluke, 239 



Salangana caves in Java, 399 

 Salmon, 217, 324 



— trade, 220 



— salmon-spearing, 219 



— growth of the salmon, 219 



— abundance of salmon, 220 



— introduced into Australia and New 



Zealand, 221 

 Salmon-leaps, 218 

 Salpas, 325 



— their alternating generations, 327 

 Salts of the sea, 12 



Sand-crab, American, 262 



Sand-hopper, 246 



Sand-stars, 332 



Sandwich Land, discovery of, 490 



— Islands, discovery of, 490 

 Sardinia, stalactite caves of the island 



of, 49 

 Sargasso Sea, the, 397 

 Saurians of the past seas, 172, 438 

 Scari, or parrot-fishes, 372 

 Schouten, his maritime discoveries, 480 

 Scissor-bill, 144 

 Scoopers, 143 



Scoresby, his arctic voyages, 497 

 Scyllaea, 283 

 Scythe, the, 415 

 Sea-anemones, 361 

 Sea-bear, 117, 126 

 Sea-birds, 128, 142 



— their vast numbers, 142 

 Sea-cask, 142 

 Sea-cucumbers, 339 

 Sea-devil of the Pacific, 241 

 Sea-ear, 286, 287 

 Sea-elephant, 125 

 Sea-fox, 99 



Sea-hare, 284, 295 

 Sea-horse, 129, 234 

 Sea-lemon, 284 

 Sea-lion, 128 

 Sea-mat, leaf-like, 316 

 Sea-mew, 157 



Sea-otter, 139 



— chase of the, 139 

 Sea-pen, 364 



— jts phosphorescence, 420 

 Sea-pie, the, 144 

 Sea-pinks, 391 

 Sea-scurfs, 318 

 Sea-snail, purple, 290 

 Sea-snakes, 183 

 Sea-squirts, 323 

 Sea-swallows, 157 

 Sea-urchin, 337 



Sea- weeds, 391 



— luminous, 423 

 Sea-wolf, 197 



Seals and walruses, 117 



— foud of, 120 



— statistics of seal-fishery, 121 



— various kinds of, 123 



Seine, sudden rising of the spring-tide! 

 at the mouth of the, 42 



Seleueidae, maritime discoveries of the, 

 42 



Seleucus Nicator, his circumnavigation 

 of Hindostan, and discovery of Ta- 

 probane, or Ceylon, ,447 



Semen Deshnew, the Cossack, his mari- 

 time discoveries, 483 



Sepia. See Cuttle-fish 



Serapis, temple of, 1 1 



Serpents of the seas, 183 



Serpulas, 266 



Sertularia, 347 



Shakspeare's Cliff, destructive action of 

 the sea on, 30 



Sharks, 198 



— Greenland shark, an enemy of the 



whale, 99 



— luminous, 330 

 Sheldrake, or burrow duck, 148 

 Sheppey, Isle of, rapid decay of the coast 



of the, 30 

 Sherringham, ravages of the sea on the * 



coast at, 29 

 Shetland Islands, fury of the Atlantic 



waves at the, 28 

 Shetland, New South, discovery of, 509 

 Ship-worm (teredo), 302 

 Shore-crab, 251 

 Siberia, Cook's visits to the coasts of, 



492 

 Sicily, submarine landscapes of the coast 



of, 21 

 Siphonostomata, 245 

 Skerries, cave in the, 51 

 Skerryvore lighthouse, 85 

 Skimmer, 169 

 Sledge-journey, arctic, 502 

 Sly, 202 

 Smeaton, John, his lighthouse on the 



Eddystone rocks, 83 



