Title: The North-Atlantic Sea-Bed: comprising a diary of the voyage on board H.M.S. Bulldog, in 1860, and observations on the presence of animal life, ... at great depths in the ocean.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Wallich, George Charles; 1862. Pt. 1.; 4 . 10498.d.13.

And Observations On The Presence Of Animal Life, And The Formation And Nature Of Organic Deposits, At Great Depths In The Ocean.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES ON THE PRESENCE OF ANIMAL LIFE AT VAST DEPTHS IN THE SEA. Our first clear glance at the floor of the ocean may be said to bear date from the period at which telegraphic communication between the various countries of the globe was first undertaken. Our previous knowledge of its characters was both limited and imperfect in kind. For, although the depth of the sea had been approximately ascertained over widely extended areas, no attempt had as yet been made to investigate the material of which its bed is composed. It was only during the last few years that the possibility of perfecting our information became recognized,?numerous important facts having revealed themselves, in the course of the sounding surveys conducted under the auspices of the British and United States' Governments, all of which tend to prove that the same wondrous agencies, whereby some of the sedimentary strata of the earth's crust were accumulated in ages gone by, are still in operation, and that the recesses of the deep,hidden although they be from man's direct vision, may nevertheless be rendered subservient, in due time, to his enterprise and skill. But whilst the history of the material obtained during the soundings referred to shed much highly interesting light on the formation of submarine deposits, it likewise showed how much still remained to be explored and accounted for. Thus, evidence was wanting to enable us to determine whether the minute shell-covered creatures, whose remains are sometimes brought up by the sounding- machine in such profusion as to constitute a very large per-centage of the various deeper oceanic deposits, lived and died where they were discovered, or whether, having passed their existence in the superincumbent waters, their calcareous skeletons had gradually subside...

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And Observations On The Presence Of Animal Life, And The Formation And Nature Of Organic Deposits, At Great Depths In The Ocean.