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Hastings is, I fear, but a poor spot for dredging. Its friable cliffs and strong tides produce a changeable and barren sea-floor.
But the sinister shadow would go by, and straightway the sea-floor would be alive again, busy with its affairs of pursuit and flight. The floor of the cove was uneven, by reason of small, shell-covered rocks and stones being strewn over it at haphazard.
To think that the whole human race, its joys and its sorrows, its virtues and its sins, its aspirations and its failures, has been rushing out of eternity and into eternity again, as Arjoon in the Bhagavad Gita beheld the race of men issuing from Kreeshna's flaming mouth, and swallowed up in it again, "as the crowds of insects swarm into the flame, as the homeless streams leap down into the ocean bed," in an everlasting heart-pulse whose blood is living souls and all that while, and ages before that mystery began, that humble coral, unnoticed on the dark sea-floor, has been "continuing as it was at the beginning," and fulfilling "the law which cannot be broken," while races and dynasties and generations have been
From her likewise hath Mezentius five hundred in arms against him, whom Mincius, child of Benacus, draped in gray reeds, led to battle in his advancing pine. Aulestes moves on heavily, smiting the waves with the swinging forest of an hundred oars; the channels foam as they sweep the sea-floor.
So in flame and thunder they kissed, but now, quiet enough, they lie upon the sea-floor, they and the spilled treasure." Damaris moistened her lips. "Where are the brave and gallant gentlemen who led this venture? Where is Sir John Nevil? Where is Sir Mortimer Ferne?"
Yet in truth we know that the oceanic movement is the product of many forces; the seeming uniformity covers the energy of a hundred currents and counter-currents; the sea-floor is not even nor the same, but is subject to untold conditions of elevation and subsidence; the sea is not one mass, but many masses moving along definite lines of their own. It is the same with the great tides of history.
And at the bottom, far beneath, deeper under our feet than the summit of the Peak of Teneriffe was above our heads for we were now in more than two thousand fathoms water what exquisite forms might there not be? myriads on myriads, generations on generations, people the eternal darkness, seen only by Him to whom the darkness is as light as day: and to be seen hereafter, a few of them but how few when future men of science shall do for this mid-Atlantic sea-floor what Dr.
Whatever piratical plans they had got made up were evidently for afterward. But when day after day passed, and still none of the treasure was brought to the surface, he began to modify this original opinion. Tazzuchi translating the divers' reports said that the cause of the delay was the softness of the sea-floor.
Then in a very few minutes, because the creatures of the sea seem unable to fear what does not move, the life of the sea-floor again bestirred itself, and small, misshapen forms that did not love the sunlight began to convene in the shadow of the boat. Presently, from over the side of the boat descended a dark tube, with a bright tip that seemed like a kind of eye.
With the specie that would make the temptation still snugly stored on the sea-floor, the dirty, untidy Italians were still all affability. Indeed, as soon as he appeared, Tazzuchi himself stepped down off the upper bridge to give him the news. "How do you think those crafty imps have managed it?" he cried, with a gesture. "Why they dived down and cut off her masts below water level.
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