LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON, CHEAPSIDE;
T. T. AND H. TEGG, DUBLIN; R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW ;

AND J. AND S. A. TEGG, SYDNEY, AND HOBART TOWN.

1837.

113.

CONTENTS.

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Chap.

Page

1. PARLEY tells about the Five Great Oceans ......

2. About the Saltness of the Sea. About Tides. Colours of the

Sea. Sparkling of the Sea .....

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3. Parley goes to Nahant. About Fishes and other Creatures

that inhabit the Sea. Various Matters and Things.......

4. About the various Names given by Sailors to different Parts

of a Ship and of its Rigging.......

5. About the Mariner's Compass, and building a Ship ......

6. Parley tells about various Kinds of Vessels .....

7. Story of a Cabin-boy.........

8. Cabin-boy's Story continued. About the Cod-fisheries. De-

scription of the Whale-fisheries .......................

• 9. The Fishermen meet with more Whales. They kill a young

Wbale, and afterward kill the old one. Adventure with a

White Bear. Description of the Greenlanders. How a

Greenlander killed a Seal..........

10. Story of the Cabin-boy continued. Dangerous Accident.

Capture of the Whale-ship. She is taken to France, where

the Crew remain for two Years. George Gordon at length

returns to bis Home. The melancholy Fate of bis Mother.

End of the Cabin-boy's Story................. ....... 83

11. Story of Leo and the Pirates ........................... 91

12. Leo's Story concluded ..

.. 109

13. About the Pacific Ocean.........

............ 119

14. Parley's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Description of Rio

Janeiro. Account of the Patagonians S ................. 122

COnCiuueu ..............

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