Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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relax. Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight let's continue with a lovely work of science and history,

The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll,

author of Nacken Round the Rockies, the Oyster Industries of the United States,

Friends worth knowing, wild neighbors, the crest of the Continent, etc.

First published in 1898 by the Century Company, New York.

Let's pick up right where we left off in the middle of Chapter 3,

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