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"The wrecks dissolve above us: their dust drops down from afar; -- / Down to the dark, the utter dark, where the blind white / sea-snakes are. / There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, / O'er the great grey level plains of ooze, where the shell-burred / cables creep. " -- RUDYARD KIPLING.
By way of variety, shall we take a little excursion together, you and I, into those under-sea regions of which so much has been said in past chapters? Regions which the foot of man has never trod; which the eye of man has never seen; which, except in death, the hand of man has never touched.