The Ocean World

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Excerpt from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Some of Its Inhabitants Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant: the one visible, the other invisible, one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface. It is proposed in The Ocean World to give a brief record of the Natural History of one of those great oceans and its living inhabitants, with as little of the nomenclature of Science, and as few of the repulsive details of Anatomy, as is consistent with clearness of expression, to describe the ocean in its majestic calm and angry agitation, to delineate its inhabitants in their many metamorphoses, the cunning with which they attack or evade their enemies, their instructive industry, their quarrels, their combats, and their loves. The learned Schleiden eloquently paints the living wonders of the deep: If we dive into the liquid crystal of the Indian Ocean, the most wondrous enchantments are opened to us, reminding us of the fairy tales of childhoods dreams. The strangely-branching thickets bear living flowers. Dense masses of Meandrineas and Astreas contrast with the leafy, cup-shaped expansions of the Explanarias, and the variously-branching Madrepores, now spread out like fingers, now rising in trunk-like branches, and now displaying an elegant array of interlacing tracery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.