THE CHAPTERS ON CONCHOLOGY REVISED AND ENLARGED BY CHARLES O. GROOM-NAPIER, F.G.S., &c. "Our Planet is surrounded by two great oceans," says 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 delinea…
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