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Show Life Under Pressure. The bed of the Arctic seas Is very-fine very-fine and plastic, while in the other 7ones of the Atlantic the bed Is covered cov-ered with reddish mud and an accumulation accumu-lation of the remains of animals 'hat lived In the surface waters, died, and slowly sank. The pressure of the sea Increases about one atmosphere to every ev-ery ten meters, so every additional hundred meters ndds the pressure o, ten atmcspheres. When deepsea linn oh are brought to the surface thry lose their scales, their teguments beet mo brittle, and they are so inflated by internal in-ternal distension caused by th" lessened les-sened pressure that In many raos they burst asunder. Harper's VV0i4 Vr- |