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One of the most important facts that has been established by modern investigations of the Sea is that there is no region in its vast extent that is entirely devoid of animal life. The surface waters in the Equatorial calms and the ice-cold waters between the ice-bergs of the Arctic regions are densely populated by animals, large and small; the heavy and heated waters of the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and the cold and comparatively fresh waters of the Norwegian fjords, the shallow waters of the