Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 592
-pieces of both cloud and wave. So Shak-speres sea mounting to the welkins cheekis no exaggeration. Less violent winds make what we callwhite-caps, and it may be interesting to notehere where the white-caps get their w-hiteness.As a matter of fact, the little bubbles of whichthese caps are made are… … 967 968 THE MACHINERY OF THE SEA [Sept., colored as a soap-bubble; but these bubbles arein such masses that all their colors mingle.And all colors put together, you know, makewhite. The same thing is true of snow. Eachflake is in reality a little prism, and shows on that is the friction between her…
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