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CHAPTER XXI

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THE PHOSPHORESCENCE OF THE SEA.

Its Causes.--Noctiluca miliaris.--Phosphorescent Annelides and Beroës.--Intense Phosphorescence of the Pyrosoma atlantica. --Luminous Pholades.--The luminous Shark.--Phosphorescent Algæ. --Citations from Byron, Coleridge, Crabbe, and Scott. 423

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