FOX-FIRE 



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lights, so effectively employed as ornaments for 

 the hair and otherwise in the toilet of the Cuban 

 belle. But the sea is the home of luminous life. 

 From the diminutive myriads of the noctiluca, 



which sets the sea 

 aflame, to the nu- 

 merous larger 

 finny tribes, 

 the ocean is 

 peopled 



