 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1908 - 542 pages
...but 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. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent; and off Cape Horn I do not recollect... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...but 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. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent ; -and off Cape Horn I do not recollect... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 pages
...but 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. As we proceed further southward the sea is seldom phosphorescent; and off Cape Horn I do not recollect... | |
 | W.S. Berridge - 1923 - 274 pages
...broke against the hull of the vessel. Darwin also tells us that: " When 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." It is also recorded that the captain of an American ship sailed through a zone of phosphorescent sea... | |
 | Frederick Stratten Russell, Charles Maurice Yonge - Fisheries - 1928 - 530 pages
...Darwin again describes such a sight in picturesque terms. He says, " While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a...and the sky above the horizon, from the reflected flare of these livid flames, was not so utterly obscure as over the vault of the heavens." Nearly fifty... | |
 | Robert Cushman Murphy - Antarctica - 1936 - 724 pages
...a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, & in her wake was a milky train. As far as the eye reached the crest of every wave was bright; & from the reflected light, the sky just above the horizon was not so utterly dark as the rest of the... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Fiction - 1984 - 508 pages
...decomposing carbonic acid gas, like the members of the vegetable kingdom. While sailing in these latitudes on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful...livid flames, was not so utterly obscure, as over the rest of the heavens. As we proceed further southward, the sea is seldom phosphorescent; and ofTCape... | |
 | Michael I. Sobel - Science - 1989 - 280 pages
...pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake was a milky train. As far as the eye reached the crest of every wave was bright; and from the reflected light, the sky just above the horizon was not so utterly dark as the rest of the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Nature - 2001 - 504 pages
...a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, & in her wake was a milky train.— As far as the eye reached, the crest of every wave was bright; & from the reflected light, the sky just above the horizon was not so utterly dark as the rest of the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1989 - 452 pages
...decomposing carbonic acid gas, like the members of the vegetable kingdom. While sailing in these latitudes on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful...livid flames, was not so utterly obscure, as over the rest of the heavens. As we proceed further southward, the sea is seldom phosphorescent; and off Cape... | |
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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.... 
