INDEX. 



523 



SMO 

 Smooth-back whale, the antarctic, 102 

 Snake-stars, 437 

 Snow-goose, 146 



Society Islands, discovery of the, 486 

 Soland goose, 1S6 

 Solasters, 334 

 Sole, 237 



— skin of the, 190 

 Solen, or razor-shell, 304 



Solis, Juan de, his discoveries, 461 



his death, 461 



Solomon Islands, discovery of the, 473, 



483 

 SoufBeur, or blower, the marine cave of 



the, 52 

 Soundings, American method of taking, 



in deep water, 6 

 South Sea Islands, discovery of the, 



474 . 

 Speckled diver, 145 

 Sperm-whale, or cachalot, 102 

 Spiders, marine, 260 

 Spitsbergen, discovery of, 477 

 Spondylus, royal, 314 

 Sponge-crab, 249 

 Sponges, 385 



— their remarkable growth, 385 



— habitat of the common sponge, 388 

 Sprat, the, 214 



Springs, origin of, 73 



— mineral waters, 74 



Springs of fresh water in the bottom of 



the sea, 17 

 Staffa, island of, 46 

 Stalactite caves of the island of Sardinia, 



49 

 Star-fishes, 328 



— their organisation, 328 

 Star-gazer fish, 202 

 Sterlet of the Volga, 217 

 Stevenson, Mr. Alan, his Skerryvore 



lighthouse, 86 

 Stevenson, Mr. Bobert, his lighthouse 



on the Bell-Kock, 85 

 Stickleback, parental affection of the, 



195 

 Stone-corals, 373 

 Storm, the great, of 1703, 82 

 Storm-tides, 34 



— devastations of, on flat coasts, 34, 



35 

 Strand-birds, 143 



— migration of, 144 



— food of, 144 

 Strombus pes pelicani, 290 

 Sturgeons, 216, 217 



— caviar, 217 

 •Sucking-fish, 203 



Suffolk, rapid decay of the cliffs of, 29 

 Sun-fish, 232, 233 



— its luminousness, 422 



Sun, his influence on the tides, 37 



Sun-star fish, 334 



Surgeon-fish, the, 205 



Sweden, gradual upheaving of the coast 



of, 10 

 Sword-fish, an enemy of the whale, 99 

 — his weapon, 201 

 Synchseta baltica, 269 



TAHITI, discovery of, 484 

 Tailor-bird, the, 143 

 Taprobane, or Ceylon, discovery of, 4 17 

 Tartessus, Phoenician town of, 444 

 Tasman, Abel, his maritime discoveries, 



480 

 Tasmania, discovery of, 481 

 Tectibranchiata, 284: 

 Temperature of the sea, 13 



— at various parts of the surface of the 



globe, 14 

 Teredo navalis, 302 

 Thames, progress of the tide-wave in, 



the, 43 

 Thornbacks, 240 

 Thresher, or sea-fox, an enemy of the 



whale, 99 

 Thunder-stones, 437 

 Tide-wave, measurement of the depth of 



the sea by the rapidity of the, 8 



— progress and course of the, 40, 43 

 Tides, the, 32 



— description of the phenomenon, 32 



— devastations of storm-floods on flat 



coasts, 34, 35 



— knowledge of the ancients respecting 



the tides, 35 



— fundamental causes of the tides- 



revealed by Kepler and Newton, 

 36,37 

 Tides, height of the, at various places, 

 38 



— vortices caused by the : the Mael- 



strom, Charybdis, &c, 41. 



— the phenomena of the Euripus, 44 

 Tierra delEuego, masses of sea-weed at, 



394 - 



rounded by Schouten and 



Le Maire, 480 

 Tonga, discovery of, 481 

 Top, agglutinating, 296 

 Tornadoes, causes of, 68 

 Tornatellafasciata, 290 

 Torpedo, the, 201 



Torres, his maritime discoveries, 480 

 Torso Bock, the, 9 

 Tortoise-shell, 180 

 Tortoises, 176 

 Trade-winds, the, 67 

 Transparency of the sea at Capri, IS 

 in the Indian Ocean, 21 



