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inspection it is seen to be somewhat enlivened by the 

 presence of a multitude of living creatures, mostly 

 Crustacea or the spat of limpets and barnacles ; and 

 one feels that, instead of being in the presence of 

 death, he is in the midst of abundant joyful life. 



My pleasant task is over, and for all apology for 

 its many shortcomings I can only say that I have done 

 my best to put facts before the reader without being 

 tedious, so that if the instruction was slender the 

 interest might not flag. I need scarcely say that by 

 the aid of text books it would have been quite easy 

 to expand each one of these chapters into a book 

 as long as the whole of them. But that, I take it, 

 woiold have been to defeat the object for which I 

 was commissioned to write these papers, and which I 

 tried to foreshadow in the brief introduction to them. 

 If what has been here set down has in some degree 

 increased the reader's interest in and reverence for 

 the work of God in places far from his every-day ken 

 and made him feel that it is worth while to cultivate 

 a wide and sympathetic outlook upon His world, I 

 shaU be abundantly repaid. 



THE END 



