Show FEED UPON SALT WATER Coo Count atless leim living I things that awat in the depths ol of the obear the salts of the sea have fed throughout all time countless things which have thronged thron ged its waters and whose remains now form the rocks of the continents or lie spread in beds ot of unknown unkei own thickness over square miles of the square miles of the oceans floor they have lent the substance to build the fringing reefs of the land and all the coral islands of the sea bea and there are at present pre zent on the basis of an average salinity of 3 per cent ceaf in fax the cubic miles of water which makes up the oceans tons or 10 cubic miles of salt this is sufficient to cover the areas of all the lands of the earth with a uniform layer t f salt to a depth of 1000 feet it seems says popular science monthly that the sea was made salt bait in the beginning as a part of the grand design of the creator to provide for the system of evolution which has been going on since the creation many distinct species of living 3 are in a result otlis salinity and their remains have largely contributed 0 to o the growth of continents the three great factors in recounting accounting for the system of currents in the ocean by which it becomes the great heat distributor of the globe are changes chambes of temperature the winds and salinity the last mentioned becomes an important factor through the immediate and e essential e sen differences of specific gravity and consequent differences of level that teat it produces in different parts of the theofan ocean through the action of evaporation and rainfall |