Show curiosities OF THE OCEA oceay BOTTOM mr green the famous diver tells singular stories of his adventures when making search in the deep waters of the ocean he gives some new sketches of what lie he saw at the I 1 silver bank near hayti the banks of the coral on which my bivings were made are about forty miles in length and about ten or twenty in breadth on this bank is presented to the diver one of the most moat beautiful and sublime scenes the eye ever beheld the water varies from ten to one hundred feet in depth and is so clear that the diver can see from two to three hundred feet when he is submerged with but little obstruction lo 10 the sight the bottom of the ocean in many places is as smooth as a marble floor in others it is studded with coral columns from ten to one hundred feet in height and from one to eighty feet in diameter the tops of those more lofty support pendants pennants pend ants each forming a myriad more giving reality to the imaginary abode of some water nymph in other places the pendants pennants pend ants form arch after arch and as the diver stands on the bottom of the ocean and gazes through these in ohp deep winding avenue he finds that they fill him with as sacred an awe as if he were in some old cathedral which had long been buried beneath old oceans wavell wave here and there thera the coral extends even to the surface of the water as if those loftier columns were towers towena belonging to those stately temples that are now in ruins there were countless varieties of diminutive minu tive trees shrubs and plants in lit every crevice odthe corals corald where the water had deposited the least earth they were all of a faint hue owing to the pale light they received although of every shade and entirely from plants I 1 am fA millar familiar with that vegetate upon dry land one in particular attracted my attention it resembled a sea fan of immense size of variegated vari gated colors andl and the most brilliant hue the nish fish which inhabit those silver banks I 1 found as different in kind as the scenery was varied they were of all forms colors and alzea sizes from the symmetrical goby to the globe like sun bun sunfish fish nish from those of the dullest hue to the changeable dolphin from the spots of the leopard to the hues of of f the sunbeam from the harmless minnow to the voracious shark |