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? kind of fish, resembling the tunny, i' cited, aj 
'^'ided with ail oil which shines with considerabl} 
S tliis^'^^ Nollet wasconvinced, by a series of experiments, 
^ 1 P^^tioinenon is caused by small animals, either 
r “tinous aspect, or by some liquor or effluvium 
Nes. emit. He did not, however, exclude other 
among these, the spawn or fry of fishes 
Of I attention. M. Dangelct, in sailing into tht 
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j Of A auention. ivi, juiangeici, m 
'’tongil, in the island of Madagascar, observed a 
quantity of fry, which covered the surface of 
: extent of mo 
t, -fst 
>1 V?':' 
^his 
.... more than a mile, and which he, 
account of its colour, mistook for a bank of 
"f* immense accumulation of spawn or fry exhaled 
w liad “'® odour ; and it should be remarked that the 
r'lC days before, appeared with uncommon 
same accurate observer, perceiving the sea 
a ^ '■'’vinous in the road of the Cape of Good Hope, 
^^Uce,,’^®ffect calm, remarked that the oars of the canoes 
a whitish and pearly kind of lustre: when he 
"®nd the water, which contained phosphorus, he 
*i>e it. for some minutes, globules of light as lar/ 
" pins. On pressing these globules, they ap^ 
A'‘*^(!tl of pins, un pressing uiese giuuuica, ut-- 
W® after touch like a soft and thin pulp ; and some 
*^3. Bea wae rnupTr*fl with entire banks of small 
jjj . -e sea was covered with entire banks of small 
jrj ‘I’Oumerable multitudes. 
, these fiicts it may be deduced, that various 
h *^at iK^'^ttte to the light and scintillation of the sea ; 
k^itatio light which the Cayenne naturalist attributed 
Jttid "3nd friction, diftersfrom that which is extended 
seemlna rnver the whole suvface of the 
Seeming to cover the whole surface of the 
" . Producing 3 very beautiful and striking appear- 
“^ularly in the torrid zone, and in the suinmei 
,, BLACKMOKE. 
'i(^ed u wonderful phenomena of nature rnay be 
L tides of the sea. They were but little un- 
C%im 1^ the ancients, although Pliny^ Ptolemy, and 
and''’®'® °ploion that lliey were influenced by 
*ttoon. The former expressly says, that tlia 
tides and currents 
Alternate tides iu sacred order run. 
Blackmore. 
