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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



water was a rich green, and nothing could be more soft and ten- 

 del than the gradations of color made by the sea shoaling on the 

 sloping tongue of a berg close beside us. The tint increased in 



intensity where the ice overhung the water, and a deep cavern 

 near by exhibited the solid color of the malachite mingled with 

 the transparency of the emerald, while in strange contrast a 

 broad streak of cobalt blue rau diagonally through its body. The 



