| PAGE |
| [A “White Star”
Liner crossing the Atlantic.] | Frontispiece. |
| [The Steerage of an Atlantic Steamship Forty Years
ago] | 4 |
| [At Dinner in the First-class Dining Saloon of an
Atlantic Steamship during a Storm] | 9 |
| [New York Bay, looking across to Staten
Island] | 12 |
| [A Pullman Railway Car] | 16 |
| [Madison Street, Chicago] | 17 |
| [On the Pacific Railway: a Scene in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains] | 20 |
| [Camp Douglas Garrison, near Salt Lake
City] | 24 |
| [A Street in Salt Lake City] | 25 |
| [On the Pacific Railway; the Interior of a
Snow-Shed in the Sierra Nevada] | 29 |
| [A Cricket-match on Board Ship] | 33 |
| [Leaving the Coast of California] | 36 |
| [A Street in Japan] | 41 |
| [The Custom House, Shanghai] | 44 |
| [View of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands] | To face page 45 |
| [The Volcanoes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea,
Sandwich Islands (from the Sea)] | 49 |
| [View in Collins Street, Melbourne,
Australia] | 53 |
| [“The passengers were let
down by ropes”] | 57 |
| [The Rescue from the St. Lawrence River] | 60 |
| [Pearl Oyster (Meleagrina
margaritifera)] | 68 |
| [Diving for Pearls] | 69 |
| [Coral] | 72 |
| [Coral Island] | 72 |
| [Coral Fishing] | 73 |
| [Sponge Fishing off the Coast of Greece.] | To face page 77 |
| [Sponge, Growing] | 77 |
| [A Diver at Work (with Submarine Lamp)] | 80 |
| [Divers Attacked by a Sword Fish] | 84 |
| [Divers at Work] | 85 |
| [Chart of the Atlantic Ocean] | 88 |
| [Waves off the Cape of Good Hope] | 89 |
| [Whirlpool of Corrievreckan, off the
Hebrides] | 93 |
| [“The Souffleur,”
Island of Mauritius] | 96 |
| [A Ship Sailing in Phosphorescent Sea.] | To face page 97 |
| [Phosphorescence on the Surface of the
Sea] | 97 |
| [Section of the First Atlantic Cable] | 100 |
| [Exterior and Section of the 1865 Atlantic
Cable] | 101 |
| [The Paying-out Machinery on Board the
Great Eastern] | 104 |
| [The Great Eastern Laying the
Atlantic Cable] | 109 |
| [Foraminifera in Piece of Rock] | 112 |
| [Propagation of an Infusorian by Spontaneous
Division] | 113 |
| [Inhabitants of the British seas] | |
| [Kondylostoma Patens (magnified 300
times)] | 113 |
| [Medusæ] | 116 |
| [Praya Diphyes] | 117 |
| [Agalma Rubra (three-fifths natural size)] | 120 |
| [Physalia Antarctica] | 121 |
| [Madrepores] | 124 |
| [Sea Anemones] | 125 |
| [Star-fish] | 128 |
| [Urchins in a Rock] | 128 |
| [Sea Cucumber (Holothuria
tubulosa)] | 128 |
| [The Razor Fish (Solen
ensis)] | 129 |
| [The Mussel (Mytilus edulis)] | 129 |
| [Isolated Piles covered with the Spawn of
Mussels] | 132 |
| [Oysters (Ostrea edulis)] | 133 |
| [Dredging for Oysters] | 137 |
| [The Scallop (Pecten)] | 140 |
| [The Limpet (Patella)] | 140 |
| [Spondylus] | 140 |
| [Turbo] | 141 |
| [Trochus] | 141 |
| [Voluta] | 141 |
| [Conus] | 141 |
| [The Cowrie (Cypræa tigris)] | 141 |
| [Strombus] | 144 |
| [Murex] | 144 |
| [Triton] | 144 |
| [Harpa] | 145 |
| [Purpura Lapillus] | 145 |
| [Cleodora] | 145 |
| [The Octopus (Octopus
vulgaris)] | 148 |
| [The Common Nautilus (Nautilus
pompilius)] | 149 |
| [Crabs (Cancer pagurus)] | To face page 153 |
| [“The West Indian Land Crab (Gecarcinus
ruricola)] | 153 |
| [The Hermit Crab (Pagurus
Bernhardus)] | 156 |
| [Lobster (Homarus vulgaris) and Prawns
(Palæmon serratus)] | 157 |
| [The Common Shark (Carcharias
vulgaris)] | 161 |
| [The Dog-fish (Acanthias
vulgaris)] | 164 |
| [The Globe-fish (Tetrodon) and Sun-fish
(Orthagoriscus mola)] | 164 |
| [The Pipe-fish (Syngnathus
acus)] | 165 |
| [The Flying-fish (Exocœtus
exiliens)] | 165 |
| [The Salmon (Salmo salar)] | 168 |
| [The Herring (Clupea
harengus)] | 169 |
| [Herring Fishing] | 172 |
| [The Pilchard (Clupea
pilchardus)] | 173 |
| [The Cod (Morrhua vulgaris)] | 176 |
| [The Mackerel (Scomber
scombrus)] | 176 |
| [Fishing for Tunny off the Coast of
Provence] | 177 |
| [Fishing for Sword-fish] | 180 |
| [The Northern Whale (Balina
mysticetus)] | 181 |
| [Cutting up the Whale] | 184 |
| [The Great Sea-serpent when first seen from H.M.S.
Dædalus] | To face page 186 |
| [Head of Sea Serpent] | 189 |
| [On the Sea-shore: Calm and Storm] | 192 |
| [Sea Anemones] | 196 |
| [Delesseria] | 200 |
| [Laminaria] | 200 |
| [Bladder Wrack (Fucus
vesiculosus)] | 201 |
| [Ulva] | 201 |
| [Pholades in a Block of Gneiss] | 204 |
| [Spinous Cockle (Cardium
edule)] | 204 |
| [The Weaver-fish (Trachinus
communis)] | 205 |
| [The Devil’s Frying Pan, Coast of
Cornwall.] | To face page 207 |
| [The Lizard Light] | 208 |
| [The Loggan Stone] | 208 |
| [The Botallack Mine, Cornwall] | 209 |
| [Looe] | 212 |
| [View on the Cornish Coast] | 217 |
| [Rocket Line Thrown to a Wreck near
Penzance] | 220 |
| [Life-boat Going to a Wreck on Doom Bar,
Padstow] | 221 |
| [Wreck of a Steamship near Lizard Point] | 224 |
| [The König Wilhelm entering
Portsmouth Harbour after the Collision] | To face page 239 |
| [Southampton] | 225 |
| [H.M.S. Eurydice on her Beam-ends
just after the Squall] | 228 |
| [Brighton] | 232 |
| [Discovering the Samphire on the Rock] | 233 |
| [The last of the Grosser
Kurfürst] | 237 |
| [Dover] | 240 |
| [Ramsgate] | 241 |
| [The Gulf Stream Light Vessel on the Goodwin
Sands] | 244 |
| [Harwich] | 248 |
| [Yarmouth] | 249 |
| [Scarborough] | 253 |
| [Captain Boyton attacked by a Dog-fish in the
Straits of Messina] | To face page 262 |
| [Early Swimming] | 257 |
| [Diving] | 261 |
| [Captain Webb. (From a Photograph
by Albert Fradelle)] | 265 |
| [Captain Webb’s Arrival at Calais] | 268 |
| [The Home for Aged Merchant Seamen, Belvedere,
Kent] | 273 |
| [Greenwich Hospital] | 276 |
| [Greenwich Pensioners] | 277 |
| [The Great Equatorial Telescope in the Dome,
Greenwich Observatory] | 281 |
| [Collision of the Bywell
Castle and the Princess
Alice] | 284 |
| [Trinity House, London] | 288 |
| [The Siren Fog-horn, for Warning Ships off the
Coast] | To face page 289 |
| [The Storm] | 292 |
| [After the Storm] | 293 |
[“He sinks into thy depths
with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and
unknown”] | 296 |
| [“Deep on her side the
reeling vessel lies”] | 297 |
[“At daybreak, on the
bleak sea beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,”] | 300 |
| [“Three Fishermen sailed
away to the West”] | 301 |
