interchase

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For the mackerel, swimming in at the two eddies of the mouth, struck straight across in transverse courses till they met the barrier on either side, and then each slowly felt the way along to the end of the lobe, where, instead of escaping, they struck freely across again, and thus pursued their round in everlasting interchase of lustre, through the darkly transparent surface each current glancing on its swift and silent way, an arrow of emerald and silver.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864