The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chap. XLV

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING THE SEA.-(Concluded.) " Adoring, own The hand Almighty, who its channel'd bed Immeasurable sunk, and pour'd abroad, Fenc'd with eternal mounds, the fluid sphere; With every wind to waft large commerce on, Join pole to pole, consociate sever'd worlds, And link in bonds of intercourse and love Earth's universal family."

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