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their mimic rose-hued petals in what seems a 
gentle breeze. Dainty fronded ‘sea ferns,’ too 
delicate it would appear to bear their own 
weight, are strung with what look like jeweled 
beads, or hung with infinitesimal electric lamps — 
that burn and flash with intensest brilliancy. 
“Under such floods of phosphorescent light 
the pink and purple of the seaweeds take on 
more vivid tints, and what was brown before 
grows rich-hued as tints of autumn are. 
“Upon ‘the diamond ledges that jut from 
these dells,’ the self-luminous Meduse and mi- 
croscopic crustaceans seem signaling to each 
other by lights of every hue which flicker and 
wane but to flash again with brighter glow.” 
