The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . ral Mollusks on bothsides of the Atlantic, and the problem how their migration from one sideof the Atlantic to the other was effected, as it undoubtedly was effected insome manner which at best remains a mere conjecture. He says :— The student of history follows with intense interest the march of aconqueror or the migration of a nation. The traveller traces, with most breathless delight, every step of theprogress of some mi
The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . ral Mollusks on bothsides of the Atlantic, and the problem how their migration from one sideof the Atlantic to the other was effected, as it undoubtedly was effected insome manner which at best remains a mere conjecture. He says :— The student of history follows with intense interest the march of aconqueror or the migration of a nation. The traveller traces, with most breathless delight, every step of theprogress of some mighty hero of ancient days. I have had my share of the pleasure when tracking the course ofAlexander and his armies in Pisidia, and determining mile by mile the routeof Manlius through Milias; on ground, too, to the modern geographerwholly new. Yet, absurd as it may seem to those who have not thought of suchthings before, there is a deeper interest in the march of a periwinkle andthe progress of a limpet. It is easier to understand how the son of Philip made his way safelythrough the sea, on his famous march from Phaselis, than to comprehend 1 In the Quarnero TERSATO, NEAR FIUME. AND THE FISH THEREOF. 25 how the larva of a Patella crossed the fathomless gulf between Finmark andGreenland. It is a strong saying, but not said without a meaning, that theexistence of Alexander may have been determined by the migration of theshell-fish. If I am right in my interpretation, we acquire a clue to theorigin of the peculiar physical conformation of the world as it is, and to thedisposition of those geographical arrangements upon which the developmentof nations and characters of men in a great measure depend. ZONE VII. is that of the greatest depths, extending from 45 to 75fathoms ; limestone springs rise here and there; effect of light reduced to aminimum; pressure at 60 fathoms, 12*26 atmospheres ; average temperature520 F. ; difference of extreme temperatures 50 F., and change ve
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