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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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added edge. As the boat moves slowly along,every object on the bottom can be distinctlyseen, as the glass magnifies it. The best view,doubtless, is had from the small boats, as thevcan go well inshore; but both have their ad-vantages. The island of Santa Catalina is aboutsi.xty miles in circumference, and it is linedwith a forest of kelp, known to scientists asNereocystis, a huge vine w hose leaves riseand fold and unfold in the water, the abid-ing place of countless animals of all kinds.Many of these animals are peculiar to thi>region; and the accompanying illustrationsarc from photographs taken under Dr. Hold-ers supervision of objects seen through theglass-bottom boat. The kelp itself formsa beautiful picture, its rich olive hue when kcatches the sun looking not unlike a greatband of amber against the vivid turquoise ofthe water. The effects are in the fullestsense kaleidoscopic; and as the boat movesover the shallow water exclamations come 616 THE AMERICAN REVIEIV OF REI^IEIVS.
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BLACK AND WHITE SEA FLOWERS AS SEEN THROUGH THE GLASS-BOTTOM BOAT. quick and often as one scene melts away andanother appears, and the entire range ofcolor is exhausted before the trip is over.Here will be seen a giant California star-fish,and near it the large sea-cucumber, lyingon the rocks prone and motionless. Timid,constantly changing color, and hideous to adegree, may be seen through the glass win-dow the Mephistopheles of the sea, theoctopus, searching for crabs or anythingthat it can lay its tentacles upon. Some ofthe fishes actually seem to have become ac-customed to the glass-bottom boat. One ofthese is thus described: In the crevices of the rocks you maj catchbrilliant flashes of livid red. This is the Gari-baldi, a fish resembling the angel fish of Floridato some extent. . . . It is very sociable, andcomes out, eying the boat and doubtless fa-miliar with- the strange double row of facesthat are looking down at it. Among the submarine marvels viewablethrough the glass-botto

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