 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent; and off Cape Horn I do not recollect... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. As we proceed further southward, the sea is seldom phosphorescent ; and off Cape Horn, I do not recollect... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 610 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens." Even in our own seas very beautiful displays of phosphorescence may be witnessed. On fine summer nights,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 584 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as the eye reached, the crest of everj' wave was bright ; and the sky above the horizon, from the reflected glare of these livid flames,... | |
 | 1852 - 860 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, »nd in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as tho eye reached, the crest of every wave was bright; and the sky above the horizon, from the reflected... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the Heavens. . . On two occasions I observed the sea luminous at considerable depths below the surface. Near the... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. Near the mouth of the Plata some circular and oval patches, from two to four yards, shone with a steady... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. Near the mouth of the Plata some circular and oval patches, from two to four yards, shone with a steady... | |
 | David M. Warren - 1863 - 116 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bow two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...every wave was bright, and the sky above the horizon was illuminated from the reflected glare of these lurid flames." IV. It is only quite recently that... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1868 - 176 pages
...and most beautiful spectacle. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as the eye could reach, the crest of every wave was bright, the reflected light of which illumined the horizon."... | |
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There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface, which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as... 
