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sterday a wilderness ; population redoubles; national wealth assumes vast proportions, yet the agencies which produce these marvellous results are almost as completely hidden from view as the coral insects which, in the fluctu ating waves, find material for solid and ]ier manent creations, and compel the deep itself to offer a foothold and habitation to man.
Traversing the globe of waters day and night—never resting, never sleeping—moves on the great Army of Commerce, larger than