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Excerpt from Voice From the Deep The boundless ocean, which covers to an immense depth more than two-thirds of the surface of the earth, has ever, and justly, been considered one of the grandest objects which the God of Nature has revealed to the eye of man. When we look away at the distant horizon, and reflect, that, if we were transported thither, we Should be hold, at an equally removed distance from us, still another seeming boundary between sea and skies traced on the heaving bosom of the vasty deep; and when we give our full and undivided attention to the great fact revealed to us by the light of science, that we might go on changing our position with the same results until time with us Should be no more, a - we can then conceive, in some degree, with what propriety this great and mighty expanse of waters has been called the image of eternity. Nor is it the magnitude of the ocean alone that excites our wonder and admiration. Terrific storms and tempests often rage with dreadful fury on its vast plain of waters. 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.