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Excerpt from The Wilderness and Its Tenants, Vol. 3 of 3: A Series of Geographical and Other Essays, Illustrative of Life in a Wild Country Together With Experiences and Observations, Culled From the Great Book of Nature in Many Lands
Unfortunately our knowledge of these great deeps is necessarily Of the slightest. The great expense and difficulty in carrying out scientific investigations in water, at these enormous depths, have hitherto proved an insuperable bar to anything being attempted in this respect, except by a few regularly organized scientific expeditions, specially fitted out for this purpose by the principal naval powers.
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