A RACE WITH A WATERSPOUT. 



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" It will last several years," answered his 

 father; "and some think it the ancient dye of 

 the Tyrians." 



Among these animal wrecks were found 

 numbers of the Porpita and Velella, their shin- 



Porpita pacifica. 



ing skeletons looking like dismantled hulks. 

 The color of the Porpita, in those spread before 

 them, was a rich purple, but where the animals 

 had died and the skeletons lay bleaching in the 

 sun, it presented a structure that in delicacy 

 could be compared only to spun glass. The 



