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Many-colored Butterflyingfish. Frontispiece
-- Exonautes nonsuchae -- Exonautes rondeletii
1. Millions of years ago Mount Bermuda nosed its way
to the upper air through two miles of ocean. 16
2. Modern Mount Bermuda from the air. 17
3. The largest single cells in the world: Halicystis, a
one-celled seaweed, known in Bermuda as sea bot-
tles, and looking like emeralds. 32
4. The water-worn gorges show the many lines of
wind-blown eolian sand. 33
5. A sixty-foot cliff showing the alternate soil and sand
layers of three glacial periods. 36
6. Palmetto palms buried in a sand-storm at least two
hundred thousand years ago. 37
7. A stunted cedar of Nonsuch, two hundred and
seventy-six years old. 44
8. Nonsuch vegetation: Cedar trees and undergrowth
of goldenrod and sage-bush. 45
9. Gurnet Rock. The water in the foreground covers
Almost Island. 48
10. Gurnet Rock at night. At this time sharks come in
by the hundred from the open sea. 49
11. Looking down through the ceiling of Almost Island
to the brain corals and seafans of the reef floor. 64
12. Four tenants of Almost Island: Abudefdufs, a
Striped Grunt and a Blue Surgeon. 65
13. The author studying fish, four fathoms under sea. 68
14. Pempherids inhabit Almost Island by the hundred. 69
15. Shooting flyingfish from the bow of the Skink. 76
16. Nest of Four-winged Flyingfish. A floating ball of
Sargassum bound together with silken threads. 77
17. Newly-laid eggs of flyingfish in Sargassum, weed.
Greatly enlarged photograph. 80
18. Eggs of flyingfish ready to hatch, and one newly-
hatched fish. 81

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Publication Information: Book Title: Nonsuch: Land of Water. Contributors: William Beebe - author, New York Zoological Society - orgname. Publisher: Brewer, Warren & Putnam. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1932. Page Number: xiii.
    
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