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But thirty feet below
sea
level, their dominion ceases, their influence fades, their power vanishes!
Among the echinoderms, notable for being covered with spines: starfish, feather stars,
sea
lilies, free-swimming crinoids, brittle stars,
sea
urchins,
sea
cucumbers, etc., represented a complete collection of the individuals in this group.
Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at 20,000 francs; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering-pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top-shell snails--greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun-carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred-star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery-furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother-of-pearl; green parrot shells from the seas of China; the virtually unknown cone snail from the genus Coenodullus; every variety of cowry used as money in India and Africa; a "glory-of-the-seas," the most valuable shell in the East Indies; finally, common periwinkles, delphinula snails, turret snails, violet snails, European cowries, volute snails, olive shells, miter shells, helmet shells, murex snails, whelks, harp shells, spiky periwinkles, triton snails, horn shells, spindle shells, conch shells, spider conchs, limpets, glass snails,
sea
butterflies-- every kind of delicate, fragile seashell that science has baptized with its most delightful names.
They're indeed able to fascinate a naturalist; but for me they have an added charm, since I've collected every one of them with my own two hands, and not a
sea
on the globe has escaped my investigations."
"First off, I'll mention that at the bottom of the
sea
there exist veins of zinc, iron, silver, and gold whose mining would quite certainly be feasible.
But I've tapped none of these land-based metals, and I wanted to make demands only on the
sea
itself for the sources of my electricity."
"The
sea
itself?"
Only the sodium is consumed, and the
sea
itself gives me that.
The
sea
contains it.
"But not the air you breathe?""Oh, I could produce the air needed on board, but it would be pointless, since I can rise to the surface of the
sea
whenever I like.
In essence, I was already familiar with the whole forward part of this underwater boat, and here are its exact subdivisions going from amidships to its spur: the dining room, 5 meters long and separated from the library by a watertight bulkhead, in other words, it couldn't be penetrated by the sea; the library, 5 meters long; the main lounge, 10 meters long, separated from the captain's stateroom by a second watertight bulkhead; the aforesaid stateroom, 5 meters long; mine, 2.5 meters long; and finally, air tanks 7.5 meters long and extending to the stempost.
"But when you want to set out, don't you have to return to the surface of the sea?""By no means.
I undo the bolts holding the skiff to the submersible, and the longboat rises with prodigious speed to the surface of the
sea.
"Fair enough, captain, but if we're going to see, we need light to drive away the dark, and in the midst of the murky waters, I wonder how your helmsman can--""Set astern of the pilothouse is a powerful electric reflector whose rays light up the
sea
for a distance of half a mile."
Aboard a conventional ship, facing the ocean's perils, danger lurks everywhere; on the surface of the sea, your chief sensation is the constant feeling of an underlying chasm, as the Dutchman Jansen so aptly put it; but below the waves aboard the Nautilus, your heart never fails you!
The
sea
was magnificent, the skies clear.
I took one last look at the sea, a little yellowish near the landing places of Japan, and I went below again to the main lounge.
Like the continents, the
sea
has its rivers.
"In the Quebec Museum?""Begging master's pardon," Conseil answered, "but this seems more like the Sommerard artifacts exhibition!""My friends," I replied, signaling them to enter, "you're in neither Canada nor France, but securely aboard the Nautilus, fifty meters below
sea
level."
We were separated from the
sea
by two panes of glass.
The
sea
was clearly visible for a one-mile radius around the Nautilus.
If we accept the hypotheses of the microbiologist Ehrenberg-- who believes that these underwater depths are lit up by phosphorescent organisms--nature has certainly saved one of her most prodigious sights for residents of the sea, and I could judge for myself from the thousandfold play of the light.
Among these valuable water plants, I noted various seaweed: some Cladostephus verticillatus, peacock's tails, fig-leafed caulerpa, grain-bearing beauty bushes, delicate rosetangle tinted scarlet,
sea
colander arranged into fan shapes, mermaid's cups that looked like the caps of squat mushrooms and for years had been classified among the zoophytes; in short, a complete series of algae.
I found the weather overcast, the
sea
gray but calm.
Seated on the ledge furnished by the hull of the skiff, I inhaled the
sea'
s salty aroma with great pleasure.
Under its gaze, the
sea
caught on fire like a trail of gunpowder.
It was made up of various fish and some slices of
sea
cucumber, that praiseworthy zoophyte, all garnished with such highly appetizing seaweed as the Porphyra laciniata and the Laurencia primafetida.
But in my case, since I face considerable pressures at the bottom of the sea, I needed to enclose my head in a copper sphere, like those found on standard diving suits, and the two hoses for inhalation and exhalation now feed to that sphere."
But how will we reach the bottom of the sea?""Right now, professor, the Nautilus is aground in ten meters of water, and we've only to depart."
An instant later our feet were treading the bottom of the
sea.
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