THE OCEAN WORLD.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

Plate I.—The Argonaut sailing in the open sea.

THE

OCEAN WORLD:

BEING A DESCRIPTION OF

THE SEA AND ITS LIVING INHABITANTS.

BY

LOUIS FIGUIER.

THE CHAPTERS ON CONCHOLOGY REVISED AND ENLARGED BY CHARLES O. GROOM-NAPIER, F.G.S., &c.

WITH 427 ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON: CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN;

AND 596, BROADWAY, NEW YORK.