APPEARANCE OF ICE.
LIGHT SHIP AND INCOMING VESSEL.
Another difference which our extended knowledge of the world has produced is this: The mariner now approaching an unknown coast does not fear to meet monsters, but looks out for the light-house, the light-ships, the buoys, and other evidences of civilization, by which the dangers of the coast are pointed out to the voyager. As a contrast with some of the pictures already given, representing the approach to the land of the early explorers, the illustration of the light-ship will show how differently to-day a voyage approaches its termination. Instead of looking out for enemies, and preparing weapons for use, a package of newspapers and letters is got ready, and the news boat, which lies ready at hand, is prompt to seize them, and hasten with these to spread the news of another safe arrival. It is thus that science, which is gradually preparing the means for converting the globe into one great organism for the benefit of mankind, points out the way for making it the abode of that harmony, peace and plenty which has been dreamed of by the poets of all time. For this it is only necessary that our moral progress should keep pace with our advance in knowledge. The globe will never become the abode of perfect harmony until men are united in a universal league of justice and peace. And in aiding toward the production of this most desirable consummation, what has been here written will show how important has been the part taken by the ocean.
A CORAL ISLAND.