Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . onglomerate is one of the most usefulterms I know, said Inness. It covers everything:like Renaissance. The rock is also called pudding-stone, said Verney. Away with pudding-stone! we will have none of are nothing if not dignified, are we, Miss Elaine ?said Inness, turning to that young lady, who was be-stowing upon him the boon of her society for the happyafternoon. I am sure I have always thought you had a yreatdeal of dignity, Mr. Inness, replied Miss Elaine, withher sweetest smile. We sat down on the rocks and looked at the bluesea. It is commonplace to be c
Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . onglomerate is one of the most usefulterms I know, said Inness. It covers everything:like Renaissance. The rock is also called pudding-stone, said Verney. Away with pudding-stone! we will have none of are nothing if not dignified, are we, Miss Elaine ?said Inness, turning to that young lady, who was be-stowing upon him the boon of her society for the happyafternoon. I am sure I have always thought you had a yreatdeal of dignity, Mr. Inness, replied Miss Elaine, withher sweetest smile. We sat down on the rocks and looked at the bluesea. It is commonplace to be continually calling itblue, I said; but it is inevitable, for no one can lookat it without thinking of its color. It has seen so much, said Mrs. Clary, in her ear-nest way; it has carried the fleets of all Egyptians, the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Car-thaginians, and the Romans passed to and fro acrossit; the Apostles sailed over it; yet it looks as fresh andyoung and untraversed as though created 85 11 It certainly is the fairest water in the world, saidJanet. It must be the reflection of heaven. It is the proportion of salt, said the Professor, whohad come back around the rock corner on the knobs. A larger amount of salt is held in solution in theMediterranean than in the Atlantic. It is a very deepbody of water, too, along this coast: at Nice it wasfound to be three thousand feet deep only a few yardsfrom the shore. These Mediterranean sailors are such cowards,said Inness. At the first sign of a storm they allcome scudding in. If the Phoenicians were like them,another boyhood illusion is gone ! However, since theydemolished William Tell, I have not much cared. The Mediterranean sailors of the past were proba-bly, like those of the present, obliged to come scuddingin, said Verney, because the winds wTere so uncertainand variable. They use lateen-sails for the same reason,because they can be let down by the run ; all the coast-ing xebecs and feluccas
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