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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
55
“‘O
sea!
old
sea!
who
yet
knows
half
Of
thy
wonders
or
thy
pride!’”
GOSSE’S
Aquarium,
pp.
226,
227.
These
words
have
more
than
fulfilled
themselves
since
they
were
written.
Those
Deep-Sea
dredgings,
of
which
a
detailed
account
will
be
found
in
Dr.
Wyville
Thomson’s
new
and
most
beautiful
book,
“The
Depths
of
the
Sea,”
have
disclosed,
of
late
years,
wonders
of
the
deep
even
more
strange
and
more
multitudinous
than
the
wonders
of
the
shore.
The
time
is
past
when
we
thought
ourselves
bound
to
believe,
with
Professor
Edward
Forbes,
that
only
some
hundred
fathoms
down,
the
inhabitants
of
the
sea-bottom
“become
more
and
more
modified,
and
fewer
and
fewer,
indicating
our
approach
towards
an
abyss
where
life
is
either
extinguished,
or
exhibits
but
a
few
sparks
to
mark
it’s
lingering
presence.”
Neither
now
need
we
indulge
in
another
theory
which
had
a
certain
grandeur
in
it,
and
was
not
so
absurd
as
it
looks
at
first
sight,—
namely,
that,
as
Dr.
Wyville
Thomson
puts
it,
picturesquely
enough,
“in
going
down
the
sea
water
became,
under
the
pressure,
gradually
heavier
and
heavier,
and
that
all
the
loose
things
floated
at
different
levels,
according
to
their
specific
weight,—
skeletons
of
men,
anchors
and
shot
and
cannon,
and
last
of
all
the
broad
gold
pieces
lost
in
the
wreck
of
many
a
galleon
off
the
Spanish
Main;
the
whole
forming
a
kind
of
‘false
bottom’
to
the
ocean,
beneath
which
there
lay
all
the
depth
of
clear
still
water,
which
was
heavier
than
molten
gold.”
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