 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1889 - 668 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...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. ' As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent ; etiam in tempestatibus spuma maris... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...on what, in the clear blue water, do these infusoria subsist t 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. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent ; and off Cape Horn I do not recollect... | |
 | Edwin J Walter - 1889 - 352 pages
...day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows like liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1889 - 742 pages
...drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a miiky train. As far as the eye reached, the crest of every...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. ' As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent; ctiam in tempestatibus spuma maris... | |
 | William Henry Brewer, David M. Warren - Geography - 1890 - 154 pages
...drove before her bow ts billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky tnr As far as the eye reached the crest of every wave was bright, and the sky abc.c the horizon was illuminated from the reflected glare of these lurid Harnes." 54 55 44. The Average... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1891 - 374 pages
...While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night the sea presented a most wonderful and beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and...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... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Marine animals - 1892 - 588 pages
...magnificent spectacle presented by the sea, while sailing in the latitudes of Cape Horn on a very dark night. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface,...livid flames, was not so utterly obscure as over the rest of the heavens. While " La Venus" was at anchor before Simon's Town, the breaking of the waves... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1894 - 868 pages
...sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful and very beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and...above the horizon, from the reflected glare of these lurid flames, was not so utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens." Later on, in discussing... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 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...utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens. 1833.] PHOSPHORESCENCE OF THE SEA. lea As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent... | |
 | English periodicals - 1904 - 622 pages
...beautiful spectacle." Ever}' portion of the surface glowed with a pale light, " the vessel drove from her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in...livid flames, was not so utterly obscure as over the rest of the heavens." Captain S. Samuel, who later made the record passage between Sandy Hook and Queenstown... | |
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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.... 
