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black side of the steamer. They are also seen 

 when waves are breaking on a rocky coast, and 

 often, during storm, emerald-green is churned 

 out of the indigo-blue of the Gulf Stream. 



These blues and greens, with snowy wave- 

 crests that come with stormy seas and cloudy 

 skies, certainly have a most stimulating beauty 

 about them. They smack of Iceland and the 

 aurora, and their clear, cold color suggests the 

 crystalline purity of the sea. Quite different 

 from such strong tones of coloring are the warm 

 surface blues and pinks that play upon the un- 

 ruffled Southern seas. The listless loveliness of 

 light, the blend of the two vast blues, the rosy 

 ocean of the dawn, and the golden ocean of the 

 twilight, what a contrast to the North Atlantic ! 

 And yet, how very beautiful ! From the smooth 

 equatorial swell, all the light and warmth and 

 glow of the heavens are reflected as in a moun- 

 tain-lake. Every opaline flush upon the cloud, 

 every pale-lilac of the horizon-vapors, every 

 green and gold of the barred sky at sunset re- 

 peats its image in the slow-heaving wave, until 

 the vast water seems but an inverted sky, and 

 the whole scene in vision swims a realm of light 

 and color. 



And those soft, windless nights of the South, 



