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Excerpt from Guatemala an Address Delivered at the Opening of the California State Medical Society, April 18, 1883
The storm off Tehuantepec tested the bottom of our steamer, as well as that of every passenger's stomach; the former lost none of her cargo - of the I be said. F or over one hour, while the st before the storm, two sharks kept near her keel; whether these heterocercal monsters snuffed a bouquet ahead, or whether idle curiosity impelled and sustained their diligence, remained an unsolved problem, yet they did prove one thing: that muscle and fin can make as much progress in water as steam. Another observation made was that the phosphores cent agent in a calm, when the water is moved diffuses itself like liquid fire - but during this storm the luminous principle seemed to aggregate itself in isolated centers, so that the amount of light emitted was lessened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
