APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
It so happens that careareous skeletons, exactly similar to the Globigerina of the chalk, are being formed, at the present moment, by minute living creatures, which flourish in multitudes, literally more numerous than sands of the sea-shore, over a large extent of that part of the earth’s .surface which is covered by the ocean. T’l e history of the cl.silvery of these living Globigerma and of the part which they play in rock budding, is singular enough. It is a dislorery which, like others of no less scientific importance, has ar sen, incidentally. out of work devoted to very different end exceedingly practical interests. When men first took to sea. they speedily learned to lookout for shoals and roles; and the more the burthen of their ships increased, the more imperatively necessary it became for sailors to ascertain with precision the de| th of the waters they traversed. Out of this neecossity grew the use of the lead and sounding-'ine; and, ultimately, marine-surveying, which is the recording of the form of coasts and of the depth of the sea, as ascertained by the sounding loach upon charts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1932, Page 1
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