. Ninety-three . ,i^ X3. Th(! CliiijDWfe began to spit liame on the eight vessels. At the sametime the whole squadron, ranged in a half-moon about the coivette,opened fire from all its batteries. The horizon was in a blaze. A vol-cano seemed to have bm-st suddenly out of the sea. The wind twistedto and fro the vast crimson l)anner of battle, amid which the shipsappeared and disappeared like phantoms. In fiont tlie black skeleton of the corvette showed against the redbackground. The white banner, with its JJeitr-de-Jis, could Ije seen floating fromthe main. OS XINETY- THREE. The two men seated
. Ninety-three . ,i^ X3. Th(! CliiijDWfe began to spit liame on the eight vessels. At the sametime the whole squadron, ranged in a half-moon about the coivette,opened fire from all its batteries. The horizon was in a blaze. A vol-cano seemed to have bm-st suddenly out of the sea. The wind twistedto and fro the vast crimson l)anner of battle, amid which the shipsappeared and disappeared like phantoms. In fiont tlie black skeleton of the corvette showed against the redbackground. The white banner, with its JJeitr-de-Jis, could Ije seen floating fromthe main. OS XINETY- THREE. The two men seated in the little l)()at kept silence. The triangularshallows of the Minquiers, a sort of submarine Trinacrium, is largerthan the entire island of Jersey ; the sea covers it ; it has for culmi-nating ijoiut a platform, Avliieh even the highest tides do not reach, fromwhence six mighty rocks detach themselves toward the northeast, rangedin a straight line, and producing the effect of a great wall, which hascrumbled lieiu and
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