Excerpt from Ocean-Work: Ancient and Modern; Or, Evenings on Sea and Land IN Breakfast Table Science an attempt was made to attract the young, by pre senting old scientific truths in a new and strange garb. In this little volume an ene deavour is made to describe the workings of the Ocean from the beginning of time down to the present hour 5 and the reader Will detect at a glance, that the present Table of Contents is formed after the work above alluded to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.