Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 464
glass, without a ripple save where someleaping barracuda or diving pelican dis-turbed the surface. These days were spentby the party in deep-water collecting; theboat being sculled slowly along just outsidethe great barrier reef, or toward the oldwreck to the south, in water thirty or fortyfeet… … will pass by and never think of eating.This one in the jar will gradually coverhimself with the weed again. And this the crab did, much to theamusement of the watchers. They made the circuit of Bird Key, nowwading, now pushing the boat through thenarrow passages lined with coral growths;now jumping…
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