The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll - Digital BookTHE OCEAN AND ITS ORIGINLOOKING at the land, we divide the surface of the earth into eastern and western hemispheres; but looking at the water, we make an opposite classification. Encircle the globe in your library with a rubber band, so that it cuts across South America from about Porto Alegre to Lima on one side, and through southern Siam and the northernmost of the Philippine Islands on the other, and you make hemispheres, the northern of which (with London at its center) contains almost all the land of the globe, while the southern (with New Zealand as its central point) is almost entirely water, Australia, and the narrow southern half of South America being the only lands of consequence in its whole area. Observing the map in this way, noticing that, besides nearly a complete half-world of water south of your rubber equator, much of the northern hemisphere also is afloat, you are willing to believe the assertion that there is almost three times as much of the outside of the earth hidden under the waves as appears above them. The estimate in round numbers is one hundred and fifty million square (statute) miles of ocean surface, as compared with about fifty million square miles of land on the globe.To the people whose speculations in geography are the oldest that have come down to us, the earth seemed to be an island around which was perpetually flowing a river with no further shore visible. Beyond it, they thought, lay the abodes of the dead. This river, as the source of all other rivers and waters, was deified by the early Greeks and placed among their highest gods as Oceanus, whence our word “ocean.” Accompanying, or belonging to him, there grew up, in the fertile imagination of that poetic people, a large company of gods and goddesses, while men hid their absence of real knowledge by peopling the deep with quaint monsters.=======================================================================================The books in digital formats in the pdf. All files are in the public domain..======================================================================================== Nothing printed will be sent. the books are in digital format, that after the purchase you can download them to your equipment. No shipping and receiving costs super fast in less than 24 hours. If you want to receive the DVD in your address, there is a postage cost of $ 7.00 that should be added at the time of payment. ======================================================================Postage & Packaging Policy: Download link, sent to buyer within 24 hours. With this link, the buyer can download to your computer all the files that are on the DVD. There is no charge for this type of shipment. ==============================================================================Copyright Notice To eCRATER VeRo Team and Publishers Association. These e-books/magazines are in The Public Domain. All content complies with eCRATER rules and regulations. No trademarks, copyrights, or eCRATER rules have been violated in this listing. This product fully conforms to eCRATER compilation and international media policy and downloadable media policy; it is NOT an unauthorised copy of any other "copyrighted product" and as such does not constitute a Copyright Violation - Unauthorised Item. If there is a legitimate copyright holder that I have not located please contact me and I will remove the relevant e-books. To our Valued Customers Our main aim is to make this wonderful Public Domain Material available to you on CD's & DVD's: the small price you pay for these CD's are for Production, Administration, Post & Packaging. Todos os nossos MP3 e e-books estão em conformidade com as regras e regulamentos do eCRATER. O item está no domínio público, o direito autoral caducou, nós possuímos direitos de revenda a ele, ou nós somos os editores e os únicos detentores dos direitos autorais. Nenhuma marca registrada, direitos autorais ou regras do eCRATER foram violadas nesta listagem. Este produto está em plena conformidade com a política de compilação e de mídia internacional do eCRATER e com a política de mídia para download.