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Bright colours assume to а certain extent the greenish hue of the sea, whereas darke ones 
present an opposite effect. The shades and dark coloured objects (green ones excepted) gradually 
present a more or less reddish or brownish tinge, which is always complementary to that of the water. 
The first submarine view presents a few rocks off the coast opposite Galle, where many green 
corals are growing. ` 
Nothing: сап equal the brillianey of these emeralds ої the sea, whose convex surfaces sometimes 
are impressed with a variety of brown patterns (Maeandrin a and Astraea) The Turbinaria 
pettata M. Edw. is distinguished by its graceful, eup-like shape and uniform green colour, which, 
wonderful to say, passes into a dull grey when roughly handled. 
On the highest parts of the rocks a delicate Pocillopora of an exquisite rose colour and 
with minute greenish polypes, fame a peculiar contrast to the vivid green of some flat Heteropores 
while another species of the same tribe (Pocillopora verrucos a) is tenanted by: large polypes 
of a brownish hue. A kind of Montipora of a similar colour expands its brittle forms not unlike 
certain fungi, and yellow flexible Aleyonia grow on the vertical sides of the rocks, which are 
covered by numerous Zoanthus with green disks. 
Varied fish enliven these curious places: dark clouds of sardines (Sardin ella Neohowii) 
appear from time to time suddenly between the cliffs, and the bright yellow and blue Gly phisodon 
Brownriggii is continually searching in the numerous holes of the rocks. The Acanthurus 
Triostegus and the beautiful red and green parrotfish (Julis qu adricolor) also haunt the 
rocky coast. 
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