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II. ON Sunday, March 2, we saw the first patches of gulf-weed drifting past the ship, and flying-fish were abundant. Our position at noon was lat. 22° 30′ N., long. 42° 6′ W., Sombrero Island distant 1,224 miles. At night the phosphorescence of the sea was particularly brilliant, the surface scintillating with bright flashes from the small crustaceans, while large cylinders and globes of lambent light, proceeding probably from Pyrosoma and some of the Medusæ, glowed out and slowly disappeared in the wake of the vessel at a depth of a few feet.
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THOMSON, W. Notes from the “Challenger” * . Nature 8, 51–53 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008051a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008051a0