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Part of a series of articles on marine life by Robertson in this volume, see also: 'Sea-Gardens', (Household Words, XIV, No. 340); ' 'Under-Water Existence' (Household Words, XIV, No. 344); and 'The Purple Shore' (Household Words, XIV, No. 346).

Based on Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856).

For the satirical device used in this article Dickens returns to the first idea he had had for the title of Little Dorrit, 'Nobody's Fault', and an idea for a leading character that he had, a man who 'should bring about all the mischief in [the story], lay it all on Providence, and say at every fresh calamity, "Well, it's a mercy, however, nobody was to blame, you know!"' (Forster, Book 8, Ch. 1).

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See also 'The Last Days of a German Revolution' (HW, XIV, No. 333), 'Condemned to Death' (HW, XIV, No. 335), and 'Six Years in a Cell' (HW, XIV, No. 338).