The Bermuda Islands; A Contribution to the Physical History and Zoology of the Somers Archipelago: With an Examination of the Structure of Coral Reefs; Researches Undertaken Under the Auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Excerpt from The Bermuda Islands; A Contribution to the Physical History and Zoology of the Somers Archipelago: With an Examination of the Structure of Coral Reefs; Researches Undertaken Under the Auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia The inner waters of the reef showed those remarkable con trasts of color which have been so frequently dwelt upon and depicted by travelers. From the most intense indigo we pass abruptly to a brilliant emerald, and from this again possibly to a bright sea-green. So ...
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Excerpt from The Bermuda Islands; A Contribution to the Physical History and Zoology of the Somers Archipelago: With an Examination of the Structure of Coral Reefs; Researches Undertaken Under the Auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia The inner waters of the reef showed those remarkable con trasts of color which have been so frequently dwelt upon and depicted by travelers. From the most intense indigo we pass abruptly to a brilliant emerald, and from this again possibly to a bright sea-green. So sudden are the transitions that the semblance of a natural water is largely destroyed, and for a moment one feels inclined to doubt the reality of the scene before him. I must confess that had I been informed in ad vance of these wonderful chromatic effects, I should have been loud in pronouncing the impossibility of their occurrence, so wholly unnatural did they appear. Passing through the line of old hulks, Whose grass-grown bottoms and battered planks emphasized the words of condem nation which relegated the ancient merchantmen to the rank of objets d' art, we entered the harbor of Hamilton. The fact of its being Sunday did not obtrude itself upon the throng that had assembled to greet us on our arrival. The helmeted red coat and servant, custom-house officials and steamship agents were out in force, but they were far outnumbered by that class of easy-going inhabitants whose hardest labor appears to be that of doing nothing. The time-honored custom of building connecting gang-planks instead of bringing the ship close up to the wharf, delayed our debarkation by about a half-hour, but delays of this or a similar kind, as we soon discovered, are of little moment with the Bermudian's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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