The Ocean has no uniform, universal Colour appearing the same throughout; a Spectator at Land sees it obscure, and especially near the Shore, some White Waves appearing near the Horizon slowly moving, like Flocks of Sheep; to those at Sea it appears Blueish, and the reason of this difference, is no hard matter to deter mine: the Ocean having the Faculty of a Mirrour, representing the Azure of the Air at high Sea, and the obscurity of the Earth nearer Shore.