The Water World: A Popular Treatise on the Broad, Broad Ocean. Its Laws; Its Phenomena; Its Products and Its Inhabitants ... with Chapters on Steamships, Light-houses, Life Saving Service ... |
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abundant animal appearance Arctic Atlantic attached bait BASKING SHARK beautiful birds boat body called canoe Cape Cape Sabine Captain capture coast color Conger coral coral reef crabs crew crustacea curious currents danger deep depth distance divers diving escape Esquimaux expedition eyes feet in length fins fish fishermen fishery floating frequently Greely Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon head hook hundred icebergs immense inches inhabitants island jaws Lady Franklin Bay land Lieut lobsters mackerel marine miles minute mollusks monster mouth mussels naturalist nautilus navigators nearly nets Northern ocean oysters pearls pieces pilchards Polar Polaris porpoise prey reached reef remarkable resemblance rocks sailing sailors salt seal seen shark shell ship shoals shore side skin sometimes soon species sperm whale spermaceti Spitzbergen sponge surface swimming tail taken teeth thousand tide tion vessel voyage walrus waves whale wonderful zoophytes
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Page 72 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 23 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 372 - ... that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...
Page 324 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Page 365 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 92 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank, Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which nature's self would rue.
Page 94 - As floating by, or rolling on the shore ; Those living jellies which the flesh inflame, Fierce as a nettle, and from that its name ; Some in huge masses, some that you may bring In the small compass of a lady's ring ; Figured by hand divine— there's not a gem Wrought by man's art to be compared to them ; Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow, And make the moonbeam brighter where they flow.
Page 335 - having placed myself between a Penguin and the water, I was much amused by watching its habits. It was a brave bird ; and till reaching the sea, it regularly fought and drove me backwards. Nothing less than heavy blows would have stopped him ; every inch gained he firmly kept, standing close before me, erect and determined.
Page 347 - High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the Fish-Hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with.
Page 297 - In, this manner the merciless pursuer seemed to stride along the sea with fearful rapidity, while his brilliant coat sparkled and flashed in the sun quite splendidly. As he fell headlong on the water at the end of each huge leap, a series of circles were sent far over the still surface, which lay as smooth as a mirror...