The mighty deep

Worton House, Eastbourne.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	“The Sea! the Open Sea!”	[1]
II.	Salt Water	[10]
III.	Earth’s Vast Ocean	[19]
IV.	Subject to Law	[27]
V.	In Ocean Depths	[37]
VI.	Rivers in the Sea	[50]
VII.	Of Wind and Water	[61]
VIII.	An Ocean of Azure	[70]
IX.	Ice-Needles to Ice-Mountains	[79]
X.	Receiving—to Give Again	[89]
XI.	A Story of Conflict	[102]
XII.	About the Long Past	[110]
XIII.	Old Ocean as a Builder	[122]
XIV.	How Chalk is Made	[135]
XV.	Of Ocean-weeds	[149]
XVI.	Coral Architects	[163]
XVII.	Over the Ocean-bed	[176]
XVIII.	Multitudinous Life	[185]
XIX.	Ocean Flowers and Lamps	[196]
XX.	Armoured Myriads and Monsters	[207]
XXI.	A Goodly Company of Crabs	[220]
XXII.	The World of Fishes	[230]
XXIII.	Some Oddities of Fish-life	[241]
XXIV.	Behemoths of the Ocean	[252]
XXV.	“Down to the Sea in Ships”	[261]
XXVI.	An Empire: Ocean-wide	[276]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The burst of the South-west Monsoon against the Colombo Breakwater	[Frontispiece]
Bore of the Tsien Tang Kiang	Facing page[34]
An Iceberg, showing the section under water	”[86]
Diatom Cases	”[154]
Part of Diatom Case	”[156]
Deep-sea Fishes	”[182]
Beam-trawl and Tow-net employed in deep-sea research	”[188]
A Deep-sea Crab	”[220]
A Blue Whale	”[254]

“How cheery are the mariners,

Those lovers of the sea,

Their hearts are like its yesty waves,