378 THE OCEAN. 
gence 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. 
