378 THE OCEAN. 



geace is to be found in the countless millions of 

 minute animals which throng the sea, but which are 

 invisible without the aid of high microscopic powers. 

 And, truly, when from a lofty station on board a ship 

 we survey a space of many square miles, and see 

 every portion of its surface gleaming and flashing in 

 living light; or mark the pathway of the vessel 

 ploughing up from fathoms deep her radiant furrow, 

 so filled with luminous points that, like the milky 

 way in the heavens, all individuality is lost in the 

 general blaze, and reflect that wherever on the broad 

 sea that furrow happened to be traced, the result 

 would be the same ; one can scarcely conceive a more 

 magnificent idea of the grandeur, the unimaginable 

 immensity of the Creation of God. 



