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Submarine Landscapes

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
July
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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When the sea is perfectly clear and transparent, it allows the eye to distinguish objcscts at a very great depth. Near Mindora, in the Indian Ocean, the spotted coráis are plainly visible under twenty-flve fathonis of water. The crystalline clearness of the Caribbean sea excited the admiration of Columbus, who, in the pursuit of his great discoveries, ever retained an open eye for the beauties of nature. "In passing over these splendidly adored I grounds," says Schopf, "where marine life ghows itself in an endless variety of forms, the boat, suspended over the purest crystal, seems to float in the air, so that a person unaccustomed to the scène easily becomes giddy. On the clear, sandy bottom appear thousands of sea-stars, sea-urchins, molluscs, anti fishes of a brilliancy of color unknown in our températe seas. Fiery red, intense blue, lively green and golden yellow perpetualíy rary; the spectator floats over groves oí seaplants, gorgonias, coráis, alcyoniums flabeliums and sponges, that afford no less delight to the eye, and are no less gently agitated by the hearing waters than the most beautitul garden on earth when a gentle breeze passé I through the waving boughs.

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Ann Arbor Democrat