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one is not a miracle upon the other?  Preternatural terrors

rested upon the Hebrews, when under the feet of Korah and his

company the live ground opened and swallowed them up for ever;

yet not a modern sun ever sets, but in precisely the same manner

the live sea swallows up ships and crews.



But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien

to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring;

worse than the Persian host who murdered his own guests;

sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawned.

Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her

own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against

the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split

wrecks of ships.  No mercy, no power but its own controls it.

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost

its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.



Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded

creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part,

and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.

Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of