THE VICTORY OF THE NIGHTHAWK 



HE time is not far distant when the 

 bottom of the sea will be the only 

 place where primeval wildness will not 

 have been defiled or destroyed by man. 

 He may sail his ships above, he may peer downward, 

 even dare to descend a few feet in a suit of rubber or a 

 submarine boat, or he may scratch a tiny furrow for a 

 few yards with a dredge: but that is all 



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