[Illustration: A TROPICAL SCENE] [Illustration: THE WORLD OF WATERS THE WORLD OF WATERS, OR, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea. BY MRS. DAVID OSBORNE. With Illustrations. 1852. Contents CHAPTER I. The Wilton Family.--Story of Frederic Hamilton CHAPTER II. The Wiltons.--Dora Leslie.--Charles Dorning.--The Mediterranean. --Corsica.--Candia.--Rhodes.--Malta.--Valetta.--The Caledonia. --A Story by Krummacher.--Adriatic Sea.--Venice.--Turkish Rowers.--Elgin Marbles.--Isle of Wight.--Thunder Storm.--Jersey. --Romaine's Journal.--Slave Ship.--Horrible Cruelty.--Slave Trade. --Wreck of the Royal George.--Eddystone Lighthouse CHAPTER III. The Wiltons.--A great Naval Victory.--Monster Fish.--The Downs.--St. Augustine.--Yarmouth.--Brock the Swimmer and Yarmouth Boatman.--The North Sea.--The Bell Rock.--Mr. Barraud.--Jock of Jedburgh.--Wreck of the Forfarshire.--Remarkable Providence.--Denmark.--The Baltic.--Journey to the Gulf of Finland.--Reindeer and Sledge. --Reval.--Superstitions.--Strange Fashions.--Ungern Sternberg. --Gulf of Bothnia.--Islands of the Baltic.--Lapland.--Aurora Borealis.--Russia.--Odessa.--Reflections CHAPTER IV. Stanzas by Mrs. Howitt.--Caspian Sea.--Astracan.--Droll Legend.--Yellow Sea.--The Japanese.--Monsoons.--Trade Winds.--Description of a Monsoon.--Asia.--The Red Sea.--Isthmus of Suez.--An Interesting Locality.--The Arabs.--Sea of Aral.--Chinese Islands.--Fishing for Mice.--The Typhon.--Fishing Birds.--Cinnamon Forests.--Eating Birds' Nests.--Bible Lands.--The Sea of Galilee.--The Dead Sea.--The Slave Merchant.--A Japan Puzzle CHAPTER V. Story of Era.--Assistance of Goodwill.--Madeira.--Man-of-War.--Dinner on Ship-board.--Computing Latitude.--Pipe to Dinner.--The Azores.-- Newfoundland.--Newfoundland Dogs.--Greenland.--Whale Fishing.--Flying Fish.--A Ship In the Polar Regions.--An Awful Sight.--The Geysers. --Icelanders.--Spitzbergen.--The Ferroe Islands.--Maelstrom.--The Norwegian Mouse.--Hudson's Bay.--Hudson's Straits.--Nova Scotia.--Henry May.--The Ancient Mariner.--Cuba.--Jamaica.--Beauty of Jamaica.--A Hurricane.--Devastation.--Ruins of Yucatan.--Indians of Mexico.--The American Lakes.--Niagara.--The Caribbean Sea.--Panama.--Gala Days.--Diving for Pearls.--The Sea-Boy's Grave.--The Funeral.--Gulf of Trieste.--Guiana.--Brazil.--Rio de Janeiro.--Montevideo.--Patagonia. --Cape Horn.--Depth of the Atlantic CHAPTER VI.