Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 440
substance, secreted by them, glows with a wonder-ful brilliancy, lighting up the water beneath fortwenty feet, and people sitting in the cabin-windowof a vessel have been able to read from the gleamsthat came from them. Humboldt, in speaking ofsome he observed, says : Only imagine the superb… … CUBAN LADY HEADING rHE LIGHT FKOM CAGED BEETLES. appears so luminous would be found covered witha thick, yellow powder, that is readily brushed off.Another wonderful living lantern is the Pyroso-ma, meaning Fire-body. It is, in reality, acolony of many thousands of animals that build,jointly, a…
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