The sea is a Mediterranean blue; and I believe that that is about the divinest color known to nature.
It is strange and fine--Nature's lavish generosities to her creatures.
At least to all of them except man.

For those that fly she has provided a home that is nobly spacious--a home which is forty miles deep and envelops the whole globe, and has not an obstruction in it.

For those that swim she has provided a more than imperial domain--a domain which is miles deep and covers four-fifths of the globe.

But as for man, she has cut him off with the mere odds and ends of the creation.

She has given him the thin skin, the meagre skin which is stretched over the remaining one-fifth--the naked bones stick up through it in most places.