Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 441
ped in a flame of bright phosphorescent light,and gleaming with a greenish luster, these creat-ures, seen at night in vast shoals, upward of a milein breadth, and stretching out till lost in the dis-tance, present a spectacle the glory of which maybe easily imagined. . The vessel, as it cleaves… … rushing to and fro, and advancing upon them; butthey proved to be beetles, or fire-flies, of the genusElater. The picture on the preceding page showsa lady in Cuba reading by the light of several ofthese light-giving beetles, set in a cage hung fromthe ceiling of a room. If we watch the marigolds,…
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