[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . ngs under him, as an aeronaut does of landand clouds beneath his car. So far as this contrivance enables men to see the landunder the waves, movements under water closely resemblemovements under air. Sea-weeds, like land plants, bend be-fore the gale ; fish, like birds, keep their heads to the stream,and hang poised on their fins ; mud-clouds take the shape ofwater-clouds in air; impede light, cast shadows, and takeshapes w^hich point out the directions in which currents i
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . ngs under him, as an aeronaut does of landand clouds beneath his car. So far as this contrivance enables men to see the landunder the waves, movements under water closely resemblemovements under air. Sea-weeds, like land plants, bend be-fore the gale ; fish, like birds, keep their heads to the stream,and hang poised on their fins ; mud-clouds take the shape ofwater-clouds in air; impede light, cast shadows, and takeshapes w^hich point out the directions in which currents is strange, at first, to hang over a boats side, peering intoa new world, and the interest grov/s. There is excitement inwatching big fish swoop, like hawks, out of their sea-weed G8 forests, after a white fly sunk to the tree tops to temptthem, and the fight which follows is better fun when plainlyseen. Of late years glass tanks have been used as fish cages,and the ways of fish are better know-n, because they are nowplainly seen in their own element. The ways of water may be studied in tlie same
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