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their mimic rose-hued petals in what seems a 

 gentle breeze. Dainty fronded ' sea ferns,' too 

 delicate it would appear to bear their own 

 weight, are strung with what look like jeweled 

 beads, or hung with infinitesimal electric lamps 

 that burn and flash with intensest brilliancy. 



" Under such floods of phosphorescent light 

 the pink and purple of the seaweeds take on 

 more vivid tints, and what was brown before 

 grows rich-hued as tints of autumn are. 



" Upon ' the diamond ledges that jut from 

 these dells,' the self-luminous Medusce and mi- 

 croscopic crustaceans seem signaling to each 

 other by lights of every hue which flicker and 

 wane but to flash again with brighter glow." 



