Louis Figuier

The Ocean World: Being a Descriptive History of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. Louis Figuier

OcK Pti Axet is surrounded by two great oceans, snjs Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant :the one visible, the other invisible ;one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface. It is proposed in The Ocean World to give a brief record of the Natural History of one of those great oceans and its hving inhabitants, with as little of the nomenclature of Science, and as few of the repulsive details of A natomy, as is consistent with clearnes Bof expression ;to describe the ocean in its majestic calm and angry agitation ;to dehneate its inhabitants in their many metamorphoses :the cunning with which they attack or eva etheir enemies ;their instructive industry :their quarrels, their combats, and their loves The learned Schleiden eloquently pamts the living wonders ot the deep: If we dive into the liquid crystal ot the I mlian Uccan the most wondrous enchantments are opened to us remmdmg us oi the tairy tales of childhoods dreams. The strangelj bianchmg thitkets bear living flowers. Dense masses of Mear Mlrineas and A slreas contrast with the leafy, cup-shaped expansions of the Explanartas, and the variously-branching Maclrepore.
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