 | Thomas Milner - Australia - 1872 - 684 pages
...foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorous, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train....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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1873 - 552 pages
...on what, in the clear blue water, do these Infusoria subsist ? While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a...reflected glare of these livid flames, was not so utterly obscuro !is over flip vault of the heavens. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent... | |
 | David M. Warren - Physical geography - 1873 - 122 pages
...which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bow two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake...every wave was bright, and the sky above the horizon was illuminated from the reflected glare of these lurid flames." 5. The depth of the ocean necessarily... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1876 - 818 pages
...most beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface, which during tho day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light....utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. As we proceed farther southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent ; and off Cape Horn I do not recollect... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Science - 1878 - 686 pages
...from Mr. Darwin's Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, ch. 8 : ' While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a...far as the eye reached, the crest of every wave was etiam in tempestatibus spuma maris fortiter agitata noctu coruscat ; quam coruscationem Hispani pulmoncm... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1878 - 678 pages
...from Mr. Darwin's Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, ch. 8 : ' While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a...far as the eye reached, the crest of every wave was etiam in tempestatibus spuma maris fortiter agitata noctu coruscat ; quam coruscationem Hispani pulmoncm... | |
 | John Davis - Azores - 1880 - 514 pages
...now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billowa of liquid phosphorus, arid in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. " The water, when placed in a tumbler and agitated, gave out sparks ; but a small portion in a watch-glass... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1884 - 574 pages
...blue water, do these Infusoria subsist ? While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dork night, the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful...livid flames, was not so utterly obscure as over the vmilt. of the heavens. 1833-1 PHOSPHOKESCENCE OF THE SEA. 163 As we proceed further southward the sea... | |
 | J. Wesley Van Dervoort - Ocean - 1886 - 530 pages
...distinguished Darwin: " One very dark night the sea presented a very beautiful and singular appearance. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface...was not so utterly obscure as over the vault of the PRINCIPAL DIVISIONS OF THE OCEAN. 41 heavens. Farther south, the sea is seldom phosphorescent, probably... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - Animals - 1887 - 272 pages
...phosphorescent jellies observed on one of his collecting-tours. He says, " While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. . . . Having used the net during one night, I allowed it to become partially dry; and having occasion,... | |
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While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful spectacle. 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.... 
