In a further space, I found that I was descending upon it; and, soon, I sank into a great sea of sullen, red-hued clouds.

In the Appendix to the narrative of that voyage, there will be found an account of a very ingenious apparatus called "clams"a sort of double scoopof his own contrivance, which Sir John Ross had made by the ship's armourer; and by which, being in Baffin's Bay, in 72° 30' N. and 77° 15' W., he succeeded in bringing up from 1,050 fathoms (or 6,300 feet), "several pounds" of a "fine green mud," which formed the bottom of the sea in this region.

We, they say, would wake the power In mountain and in mine; And transport, from sea to sea, The cedar, oak, and pine: Build the bridge, and plant the town, Enter every open mart; Make our nation's commerce flow, But this is not our heart!

Then over the bald, featureless, fire-blackened mountains, glaciers began to crawl, covering them from the summits to the sea with a mantle of ice; and then with infinite deliberation the work went on of sculpturing the range anew.

My first impression was that it might be the most minutely divided material, the ultimate sediment produced by the disintegration of the land, by rivers and by the action of the sea on exposed coasts, and held in suspension and distributed by ocean currents, and only making itself manifest in places unoccupied by the Globigerina ooze.

They used the salt-water of the sea for cooking, and carefully divided the fresh water, each man getting two pints.

It was like the murmur of a great sea at calma sea breathing in its sleep.

Now there is every reason to believe, on other grounds, that both Hindostan, south of the Ganges, and Africa, south of the Sahara, were separated by a wide sea from Europe and North Asia during the Middle and Upper Eocene epochs.

One of our writers for infants observes, after explaining that the Dutch reclaimed the whole of Holland from the sea by means of dykes, "they worked hard, saved their money, and so grew rich."

"German battle squadron, steaming at twenty knots, sighted five miles off Jutland, sir!" CHAPTER XV THE FIRST GUN Skagerak, in which the greatest naval battle of history was about to be fought, is an arm of the North Sea between Norway and Denmark.

All day long of June 6th the Wolverine, baffled by patches of mist and moving rain-squalls, patrolled the empty seas without sighting the lost schooner.

You live in an island with the sea as defence, we on the continent with a bad frontier.

An hour before midnight a pounding shower fell, lashing the sea into phosphorescent whiteness.

Lastly, there were one or two horrid desperadoes who ravaged the seas like tigers.

Then half my crew are sick and some are helpless, though I reckon they'll pick up sooner at sea than in an African hospital.

The ship Naglfar carries the army of the Yotuns across the sea under the leadership of the Yotun Rym, and Loke advances at the head of the hosts from the abode of Hel.

This is the grand Central Valley of California, the waters of which have only one outlet to the sea through the Golden Gate.

The wreck of a ship, in a smooth sea after a storm, is often seen gathered into heaps.

" "I beg your pardon, sir; I never was at sea before the first time, it is true; but I did not belong to the crew.

From Copenhagen it was reported on June 3 that hundreds of bodies, many of them horribly mutilated by explosions, and great quantities of debris were drifting about in the North Sea near the scene of the battle.

Night and day it is open, and through this passage the vast tide of stranger population, which is to mingle with and swell our own, rushes like the current of the Bosphorus from the Black Sea towards the Propontis and the Hellespont, to help fill the great basin of the Mediterranean.

"Morriston says they've had a detective up at the house examining the gown; being so utterly at sea over the affair the police are doubtless glad to catch at anything.

" THE CAPTIVE'S LAMENT Where Andalusia's plains at length end in the rocky shore, And the billows of the Spanish sea against her boundaries roar, A thousand ruined castles, that were once the haughty pride Of high Cadiz, in days long past, looked down upon the tide.

The knowledge of this marvellous fact we owe to Mr. Darwin, who, when he was at sea off the Cape de Verd Islands, collected an impalpable powder which fell on Captain Fitzroy's ship.

The presence of the latter is essentially due to the law (of representation of parallels of latitude by zones of depth), whilst that of the former species depended on their transmission from their parent seas during a former epoch, and subsequent isolation.