john3859
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Wysłany: Czw 15:45, 10 Lut 2011 Temat postu: f many a galleon
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f many a galleon
off the Spanish Main; the whole forming a kind of 'false bottom' to the
ocean
beneath which there lay all the depth of clear still water
which
was heavier than molten gold.
The facts are; first that waterbeing all but incompressibleis hardly
any heavierand just as liquidat the greatest depththan at the surface;
and that therefore animals can move as freely in it in deep as in shallow
water; and nextthat as the fluids inside the body of a sea animal must
be at the same pressure as that of the water outside itthe two pressures
must balance each other; and the bodyinstead of being crushed inmay
be unconscious that it is living under a weight of two or three miles of
water. But so it is; as we gather our curiosities at low-tide markor
haul the dredge a mile or two out at seawe may allow our fancy to
range freely out to the westwardand down over the subaqueous cliffs of
the hundred-fathom linewhich mark the old shore of the British Isles
or rather of a time when Britain and Ireland were part of the continent
through water a mileand twoand three miles deepinto total darkness
Glaucus/or The Wonders of the Shore
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