Motionless yet, when bent to one side by the hand, they directly resumed their former position.

Truly it was the region of perpendicularity! I soon accustomed myself to this fantastic position, as well as to the comparative darkness which surrounded us.

The soil of the forest seemed covered with sharp blocks, difficult to avoid.

The submarine flora struck me as being very perfect, and richer even than it would have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where these productions are not so plentiful.

But for some minutes I involuntarily confounded the genera, taking animals for plants; and who would not have been mistaken?
The fauna and the flora are too closely allied in this submarine world.
These plants are self-propagated, and the principle of their existence is in the water, which upholds and nourishes them.