along the branches: the plant is also taller and more ramified.
But there were indications of a breeze springing up; clouds were forming over the land, and drifting to the southward, and "cats' paws" here and there were ruffling the silvery glaze of the sea into a deep blue. We got on board, and by the time we had pulled out a couple of hundred yards or so, down came a pleasant breeze, cool and fresh, from the north-west. The willing lads quickly stepped the mast, ran up the main-sail and jib, and, giving her a flowing sheet, put her before it; while the water began to ripple off under her quarter, with that rustling sound which a boatman loves to hear.
"Tοὶ δ' οτρύνοντος ἄκουσαν,
Ίστον δ' ἐιλάτινον κοίλης ἔντοσθε μεσόδμης
Στῆσαν ἀείραντες , κατὰ δὲ προτόνοισιν ἔδησαν,
Ἔλκον δ' ἰστία λευκὰ ἐϋστρέπτοισι βοεῦσιν.
Ἔπρησεν δ' ἄνεμος μέσον ἱστίν ὰμφὶ δε κῦμα
Στείρη πορφύρεον μεγάλ ἴαχε, νηὸς ἰούσης.
Ἤδ' ἔθεεν κατὰ χῦμα διαπρήσσουσα κέλευθον."
The dredges were quickly down; and while they were gathering their various contents, I put overboard my Medusa net, to see what the surface might produce on such a sweet summer day. No Medusæ were to be obtained, except one or two small specimens of Cydippe pomiformis, a brilliant little sphere of jelly, resembling the clearest glass, rowed along by ciliary paddles, set in eight rows, like the meridians of a globe. But the net came in loaded with tiny active
