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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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Eimeo in the South Seas. Afterendless experiments he used water colorpaper soaked in cocoanut oil and stretchedon a plate of glass with surgeons tape.Certain oil color pencils also would per-mit of use under water. His boyhooddiving enabled him to hold his breath for45 seconds in some 20 feet of water. Hewent down many times to sketch anyscene in full color which he afterwardspainted. But the limits of lung powerwere against him. The incessant re-turning to the surface to breathe was anexasperating interruption of fascinatingwork in the rendering of the wonderfulcoral structures existing beneath the sur-face. At last he obtained a diving suitand went down for the first time into thewarm, marvelously clear waters, to. befree to remain below for long periods,gazing at, studying, drawing and coloringthe enchanting landscapes stretchingaway into the blue depths of the ultimatehaze that surrounded him. There weremountains and between them silent riversand lakes formed by the white coral70
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AFTEK MANY DISCOURAGEMENTS IT COMES AT LAST TO THE REMAINS OF AN ANCIENT CITYFAFk DOWN BENEATH THE GREEN WATERS 271 272 POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE sands. In the depths were seen glidingforms, shining dimly, the great fish asphantoms. In parts of the lagoons a-fairyland presented itself, of growingcorals inhabitated by brilliantly coloredfish disporting themselves in the clearlylit shallow waters. Here, said Mr. Pritchard, I wasable to obtain a perspective totally differ-ent from that seen through the glassbottoms of the boats sometimes used tolook upon these scenes. That is likelooking down upon a landscape from aballoon. Now I was down in the depthsand could look up as well as outward,getting a far better impression of heightsand masses, lights and shadows. Re-member always that those mountains andrivers, those forests and lakes, thosejagged precipices and unfathomabledepths shown in the pictures are mini-ature scenes in reality. Wearing adiving suit one is able to enjoy being inth

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