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Show r AT THE DOTTOfA OF'tHE OCA. N"o TffM or WliR !! 1)MI ' III Umui' Uplll. , An etraorilInary clreumatanco thut Lou boeu uotlccd with lntoruafnlnl Unit always crcfttcs nurprlso wlwn first learned is tlio entire atnenen of foreign lualtec in the dcrper parts of thcoei;an' floor. Of all tlw veuvols lost In inld-ocean, inld-ocean, of nil thn human Ix-lnrfH that hnvo Ikcu drownctl, of all tbo limrlno nnlmali. that haro perlslied, if nil thn clay, sand mid gravel let fall by dibsolv-lug- lodbei-Rs. of all thn various sul-Blancen sul-Blancen diiftcd from every btioro by shifting currents not n traco rrmaini, bnt In their ploco water from o.io thousand thou-sand to two thousand fivo hundred fathoms In depth covwn the uniform de-pu'it de-pu'it of Ihlcl-, bluish, tcnaclonis Miin callnd (lrtblgovlna oore. A bltcf thn l uudw n powerful lcna h dtslarod by ttioCocnuipolltaii Vi lio a revelation of beauty not readily forgotten. Tho twin Is composeU nlmost cutlrely of the dalu-tleat, dalu-tleat, most dolleatoly beiiutlfnl shells Imaglnabln. At depths (treater than . two thousand five hundred fathoms the i bottom of tlui sua consists mainly of products arising1 from rxpir,ure, for almost al-most Incalculable perlotla, to tho cbem- ' leal notion of n water, of punilcn nml other volcanic matters. This i dually results In tho formation of thu red clay dcpxiita that aro considered characteristic if the prufimnileat depths of tlio ocean. Carbonate of lime, which In tho form of tho shells of fornminl-fora, fornminl-fora, makes up eo larjro a part of the globlirerina oozs, is hero almost entirely absonL Sen wotcr Is very nearly a universal uni-versal wilvent, and lioforo any Bhell. Inrfoor small, reaohei tho bottom of these treininilmm abysms It Is clieuu-ally clieuu-ally eaten up, literally dissolved a result re-sult v.hlult tho enormous prelum of tho water must lailerlally hasten. At on lliottMtnd fall) ms tho wnlifht of the water iircsbln;; on nil sides of an object (inmi'rsed to tliat depth Is very nearly me. Urn to tho wpmro Inch, or more than one hundred times that Hustalnul it the .on, level, mid ot tho ' greatest leplhn tl.c prvkhura Is w Incrcnsod that t would ecm nothltiir could wlthaUind , It In fact, heavy ru-tnl cylinders let ', down with tho noiindlnir npparatus nro somettuieti, on bolng drawn up again to the surface, found licnt mid collnpacd; 1 ttromrly m.ido glass vcmrIh which the metal Inclosed are thatterud Into frafr-monts |