BAHAMA LAKE OF FIRE.
EFFECTS CAUSED BY PHOSPHORESCENCE. The lake of Waterloo is a phosphorescent sheet of water 1000 feet long, near Nassau in the Bahamas. At night it is like a sheet of living fire if any wnid is stirring to ruffle its surface. If the night be calm the water lies dark and still until some object sets it in motion. Little coloured bays are ready to swim out into the lake, where they f.eem to be clothed in garments of fl&me, leaving a long trail of molten splendour behind them. The oars when rowing are as when dipped in fire, and if one holds up a handful of the water and lets it fall it locks like beads of gold, and the fish that dart here and there, startled by ! the visitors, leave flashes of mystic, glowing splendour behind them. The clumsy turtles that m-ove about look like balls of fire, and when it rains the lake is like a mass of jewels. This marvellous display of phosphorescence has never been acoountel for, as the lake *is of artificial formation, having been madevfor tlie breeding of turtles by a Nassau resident. The bed of the lake is cut out of solid limestone and it is filled from the sea, in which there is little of the phosphorescent quality.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9007, 14 August 1907, Page 2
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221BAHAMA LAKE OF FIRE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9007, 14 August 1907, Page 2
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